Vadim Kozhevnikov

Vadim Kozhevnikov

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1909-04-22
Deathday: 1984-10-20 (75 years old)

Biography

Vadim Mikhailovich Kozhevnikov (Russian: Вадим Михайлович Кожевников; 22 April [O.S. 9 April] 1909, Togur – 20 October 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet writer and journalist. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer. Vadim Kozevnikov was born to a Russian family in the Siberian town of Togur, Tomsk Governorate, where his revolutionary-minded father, a physician, had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.Kozhevnikov studied literature and ethnology at Moscow State University, graduating in 1933. Kozhevnikov worked as a war correspondent for Pravda from 1941 to 1945, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union halfway into the German-Soviet War in 1943. He was elected secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1949.

Kozhevnikov was officially recognized as a Hero of Socialist Labour for his contributions to Soviet literature and was elected to one term as a politician to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the USSR State Prize following the publication of two of his novels in 1971.

A full-scale overview of Kozhevnikov's work, written by Soviet literary critic Iosif Grinberg, was published in Moscow in 1972.

He died in Moscow aged 75, and was buried in the Peredelkino Cemetery.

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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1909-04-22

Deathday
1984-10-20 (75 years old)

Children
Nadezhda Kozhevnikova

Citizenships
Soviet Union

Awards
Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol", Medal "For the Defence of Moscow", Medal "For the Capture of Berlin", USSR State Prize, Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad", Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Red Star, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin

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