 Valentin Rasputin’s 1976 novel, 
"Proshchaniye s Matyoroy" ("Farewell to Matyora") depicted a village faced with destruction to make room for a hydroelectric plant.Historical fiction in the early Soviet era included a large share of memoirs, fictionalized or not.Valentin Katayev and Lev Kassil wrote semi-autobiographic books about children's life in Tsarist Russia.