《 Gāngtiě shì zěnyàng liànchéng de 》 de zhǔréngōng Bǎo'ěr Kēchájīn yìzhì fēicháng jiānqiáng.
Pavel Korchagin, the hero of How the Steel Was Tempered, has an iron will.
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history
Published in 1932–34 by 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基, it draws on his own life: he fought in the Russian Civil War, was badly wounded, and wrote the book while blind and bedridden. 梅益's 1942 Chinese translation made 保尔·柯察金 a model of revolutionary grit for generations of Chinese students.
culture
Pavel's words on how to live, beginning 人最宝贵的东西是生命 'man's dearest possession is life', were copied into countless notebooks. The title is also borrowed jokingly as a pattern for any 'how X was made' story.
