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Vsevolod Anisimovich Kochetov
Всеволод Кочетов
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4 February 1912 - 4 November 1973
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Vsevolod Kochetov is a Soviet prose writer, a classic of socialist realism. He was born on February 4, 1912 in a family of Novgorod peasants. From the age of 15 he settled in Leningrad, where in 1931 he graduated from an agricultural college. After several years he worked in the village as an agronomist, there is also in his work biography during this period work at the shipyard, which later helped him in writing books. Since 1938, the future writer began to work as a journalist in one of the Leningrad
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Vsevolod Kochetov is a Soviet prose writer, a classic of socialist realism.
He was born on February 4, 1912 in a family of Novgorod peasants. From the age of 15 he settled in Leningrad, where in 1931 he graduated from an agricultural college. After several years he worked in the village as an agronomist, there is also in his work biography during this period work at the shipyard, which later helped him in writing books. Since 1938, the future writer began to work as a journalist in one of the Leningrad newspapers, continued to work as a front-line correspondent during the war.
After the victory, Kochetov decided to seriously engage in writing, composing his own work - "On the Neva Plains". Fame came to him after the release in 1952 of the novel about the family of shipyard workers “Zhurbiny”, which was repeatedly reprinted, translated into many languages and became a film.
Big family" . Next came the book “Brothers Ershov” and a number of novels.
The last work of the prose writer was published in 1969 novel “What do you want?”, in which he condemned “the decay of Soviet society by Western pseudoculture and propaganda.”
Vsevolod Anisimovich’s life ended on November 4, 1973 – he shot himself with a gun. He is believed to have committed suicide at the post office due to severe depression.