Valentin Pikul

Pikul's best-selling 1978 novel At the Last Frontier was a dramatized telling of Rasputin's influence over the Russian imperial court. Richard Stites says he was "a name hardly known to literary scholars but the most widely read author in the Soviet Union from the seventies to today [i.e, 1991].. Pikul's works were wildly popular: more than 20 million copies were sold in his lifetime. Little of Pikul's work has been translated into English. In May 2001, a Natya-class minesweeper of the Black Sea Fleet was named in his honor. So too was an oil tanker built in 2023 for state oil producer Rosneft's shipping business.

The recorded working language is Russian. Works named in the authority record are Requiem for Convoy PQ-17. Distinctions recorded are Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Order of Friendship of Peoples.

• Birth Name — Valentin Savvich Pikul • Born — 13 July 1928 • Birthplace — Leningrad, RSFSR, Soviet Union • Died — 16 July 1990 • Place of death — Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union • Language — Russian • Genre — Popular history, fiction • Notable Works — Requiem for Convoy PQ-17 The Favorite • Name — Valentin Savvich Pikul

• Illustration — Sea minesweeper of the Black Sea Fleet "Valentin Pikul" • Ocean patrol, (Океанский патруль), 1954 • Bajazet, (Баязет), 1961 • Tares, (Плевелы), 1962 • Paris for three hours, (Париж на три часа), 1962 • On the outskirts of a great empire, (На задворках великой империи), 1964–66 • Out of the deadlock, (Из тупика), 1968 • Requiem for Convoy PQ-17, (Реквием каравану PQ-17), 1970 • Moonzund, (Моонзунд), 1970 (screen version - Moonzund, 1987) • By plume and sword, (Пером и шпагой), 1972 • Stars over the marsh, (Звёзды над болотом), 1972 • Boys with bows, (Мальчики с бантиками), 1974 • The Word and the Action, (Слово и дело), 1974–75 • The Battle of Iron Chancellors,(Битва железных канцлеров), 1977 • Riches, (Богатство), 1977 • The Demonic Forces, (Нечистая сила), 1979 • The Three Ages of Okini-San, (Три возраста Окини-сан), 1981 • To each his own, (Каждому своё), 1983 • The Favorite, (Фаворит), 1984 • Cruisers, (Крейсера), 1985 • I have the honour, (Честь имею), 1986 • Hard Labor, (Каторга), 1986 • Go and sin no more, (Ступай и не греши), 1990 • Operation Barbarossa, (Барбаросса. Площадь павших борцов), 1990 • Arakcheevshina, (Аракчеевщина) • Domini canes, (Псы господни) • Janissary, (Янычары) • Fat, dirty and corrupt, (Жирная, грязная и продажная)