Born Oct. 1 (14), 1913, in Belaia Tserkov’. Soviet Russian writer, critic, and theatrical scholar. Member of the CPSU since 1940.
Borshchagovskii began publishing in 1933. He is the author of the following: a number of works on the Ukrainian classical theater and dramaturgy; a historical novel about the defense of Kamchatka during the years 1853–55, entitled The Russian Flag (1953); the novellas They Were Missing In Action (1955), Grey Gull (1958), Island of All Hopes (1960), and Glass Beads (1963), which are devoted to the Soviet Far East; the novella Clouds of Alarm (1958) and the novel The Milky Way (1968), on the heroic events of the period of the Great Patriotic War; a collection of short stories entitled Noah’s Ark (1968); the plays Wife (1955) and Bearskin (1958); the film scenarios Third Round (1963), Three Poplars in Pliushchikha (1967), and Train to Tomorrow (1967, written jointly with V. Sutyrin); and the journalistic books Madness of the Brave . . . (1965) and Crowd of Lonely People (1967). The theme of great collective deeds is the focus of his attention.