Vadim Kozhevnikov

Vadim Kozhevnikov
Born	22 April [O.S. 9 April] 1909 Narym, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	20 October 1984(1984-10-20) (aged 75) Moscow, USSR
Notable awards	Hero of Socialist Labour

Vadim Mikhailovich Kozhevnikov (Russian: Вадим Михайлович Кожевников; 22 April [O.S. 9 April] 1909, Narym – 20 October 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.

Biography[]

Vadim Kozevnikov was born to a Russian family in the Siberian town of Narym, Tomsk Governorate (present-day Kolpashevsky District, Tomsk Oblast), where his revolutionary-minded father, a physician, had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.^[1]

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 Labor for his contributions to Soviet literature and was elected to one term as a politician to the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet. 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.

Kozhevnikov died on 20 October 1984 in Moscow, aged seventy-five.

Awards[]

• Hero of Socialist Labour
• Order of Lenin (2)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Patriotic War
• Order of the Red Star
• USSR State Prize

English translations[]

• The Captain, from Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. from Archive.org
• Shield and Sword: The amazing Career of a Soviet Agent in the Nazi Secret Service, MacGibbon and Kee, 1970.
• Shield and Sword, Mayflower Books, 1973.
• The Strong in Spirit, Progress Publishers, 1973.
• Ivan Fomich, from Anthology of Soviet Short Stories, Vol 2, Progress Publishers, 1976.
• Special Subunit: Two Novellas, Imported Publications, 1984.

Bibliography[]

• Tales Of The War (Рассказы о войне, 1942)
• The Boy From The Outskirts (Мальчик с окраины, screenplay, 1947)
• Ahead To The Dawn (Заре навстречу), 1956—1957
• Meet Baluyev! (Знакомьтесь, Балуев!), 1960 (film adaptation, 1963)
• Flying Day (День летящий), 1962
• (Щит и меч), 1965 (film adaptation, 1968)
• At Noon On The Sunny Side (В полдень на солнечной стороне), 1973
• Roots And Herbs (Корни и крона), 1981—1982

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