Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky, a writer in the former Soviet Union, was born in a worker's family in 1904. Because of his poor family, 1 1 years old worked as a child laborer, 12 years old went to war, 16 years old was seriously injured, paralyzed at the age of 25 and died at the age of 32. Ostrovsky lived in Sochi for eight years, where he wrote the novel How Steel was Tempered, and ostrovsky's former residence in Sochi became a literary memorial hall named after him. How steel was tempered is one of the masterpieces in the Soviet proletarian revolutionary literature in the 1930s. Pavel Colta King is a perfect young revolutionary soldier depicted by ostrovsky in his autobiographical novel How Steel was Tempered. His spirit of "being brave, believing in one's own strength and not afraid of difficulties under any circumstances" has educated countless revolutionary youths in China and is the spiritual idol of a generation of China people.

Lei Dezu (199 1), the comic author of How Steel was Tempered, is from Nanning, Guangxi. 1959 studied in the middle school attached to Guangxi Arts University, 1962 studied in the printmaking department of Guangxi Arts University, and was assigned to Guangxi Literature and Art after graduation. Lei Dezu is one of the most outstanding cartoonists in 1980s. In his artistic creation career of more than 30 years, he has created a large number of excellent works of art, and has been rated as one of the top ten comic artists in China for three consecutive years. He explored tirelessly in the art of black, white and line and created his own artistic style. Regardless of foreign themes or China themes, painters have designed a series of pictures with great visual impact with skillful and exquisite painting skills and changeable composition and perspectives, which left a deep impression on readers and made them unforgettable all their lives. Unfortunately, due to years of hard work, he died young.

On the occasion of the 20 14 Winter Olympics held in Sochi, I specially selected 50 pictures from Lei Dezu's cartoon "How Steel was Tempered" to share with bloggers, in order to remember the author of "How Steel was Tempered" ostrovsky and the cartoonist Lei Dezu.