# Alexander Stein
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{{short description|Soviet writer}}
{{similar names|Alex Stein (disambiguation){{!}}Alex Stein}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Alexander Stein
| image = Alexander Stein playwright.jpg
| caption =
| native_name = Александр Петрович Штейн
| birth_name = Aleksandr Petrovich Rubinshtein
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1906|9|28}}
| birth_place = [Samarkand](/source/Samarkand), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1993|10|5|1906|9|28}}
| death_place = Moscow, [Russian Federation](/source/Russian_Federation)
| occupation = {{hlist|Playwright|scriptwriter|memoirist|journalist}}
| years_active = 1920-1980s
| spouse = Lyudmila Putiyevskaya (1912–94)
| website =
| awards = [Order of the Patriotic War](/source/Order_of_the_Patriotic_War)
[Order of the Red Star](/source/Order_of_the_Red_Star)
[Order of the Red Banner of Labour](/source/Order_of_the_Red_Banner_of_Labour)
}}
'''Alexander Petrovich Stein''' ({{langx|ru|Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Штейн|Aleksandr Petrovich Shtein}}; born Rubinstein/Rubinshtein/Рубинште́йн, 28 September 1906 – 5 October 1993) was a Soviet [Russian writer](/source/Russian_literature), [playwright](/source/playwright), [scriptwriter](/source/scriptwriter) and [memoirist](/source/memoirist). Alexander Stein was a recipient of several high-profile state awards, including the [Order of the Patriotic War](/source/Order_of_the_Patriotic_War), the [Order of the Red Star](/source/Order_of_the_Red_Star) and the [Order of the Red Banner of Labour](/source/Order_of_the_Red_Banner_of_Labour) (twice), as well as two [Stalin Prizes](/source/USSR_State_Prize) (1949, 1951).
==Biography==
Alexander Petrovich Rubinstein was born in [Samarkand](/source/Samarkand), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire) (now [Uzbekistan](/source/Uzbekistan)) to a middle-class [Jewish family](/source/Jews). In the early 1920s, as a member of the Samarkand [Special Purpose Forces](/source/Spetsnaz) battalion, he took part in fighting the [White Army](/source/White_Army), for the establishment of the Soviet power in the Central Asia. In [Bukhara](/source/Bukhara), he started contributing to a local military paper, then wrote for the newspapers ''Pravda Vostoka'' (1920–1923) and (after a one-year stint at [Petrograd University](/source/Petrograd_University)) ''Leningradskaya Pravda'' (1924–1929). In 1930–1939 Stein (now a [Soviet Communist Party](/source/Soviet_Communist_Party) member) edited ''Rabochy i Teatr'' (Worker and Theatre) magazine.[{{cite web | author = | date = | url = http://www.imwerden.info/belousenko/wr_Shtein.htm |title = Alexander Petrovich Stein | publisher = Belousenko library | accessdate = 2014-01-13}}][{{cite web | author = | date = | url = http://megabook.ru/article/%D0%A8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%20%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%20%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 |title = Stein, Alexander Petrovich| publisher = Megabook // Ciryl and Methody Enc | accessdate = 2014-01-13}}]
===Literary career===
In 1929 Alexander Stein published his debut play ''Oil'', co-authored by the Tur brothers. It was followed by ''Utopia'' (1930) and ''The Talent'' (1936). In 1934 he became the member of the [Soviet Union of Writers](/source/Soviet_Union_of_Writers).[{{cite web| author = | date = | url = http://pomnipro.ru/memorypage20414/biography| title = Alexander Stein. Biography| publisher = Pomni Pro // Remember Them| accessdate = 2014-01-13| archive-date = 9 February 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180209122135/http://pomnipro.ru/memorypage20414/biography| url-status = usurped}}]
In 1941–1946 Stein worked first as a senior [politruk](/source/politruk) on board the [battleship](/source/battleship) ''[Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsya](/source/Russian_battleship_Gangut_(1911))'', then as a battalion [commissar](/source/commissar) and the editor the Soviet Navy newspaper ''Oktyabrsky Luch'' (October Beam). All through the [Siege of Leningrad](/source/Siege_of_Leningrad) he stayed in the starving city, as a special correspondent for the ''Krasny Flot'' newspaper.