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Vadim Mihaylovich Kozhevnikov
Вадим Кожевников
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22 April 1909 - 20 October 1984
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Soviet writer Vadim Kozhevnikov is best known for his military prose. After going through the war as a front-line correspondent, reaching Berlin, he saw a lot and knew what he was writing about. Among his most famous works is the famous novel “Shield and Sword” about the hero of the invisible front – a scout working under the very nose of the enemy. Vadim Mikhailovich was born on April 22, 1909 in one of the villages of Tomsk province, where his parents, exiled social democrats, lived. Beginning
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Soviet writer Vadim Kozhevnikov is best known for his military prose. After going through the war as a front-line correspondent, reaching Berlin, he saw a lot and knew what he was writing about. Among his most famous works is the famous novel “Shield and Sword” about the hero of the invisible front – a scout working under the very nose of the enemy.
Vadim Mikhailovich was born on April 22, 1909 in one of the villages of Tomsk province, where his parents, exiled social democrats, lived. Beginning in 1910, he spent the next fifteen years of his life in Tomsk, from where he left in 1925 for Moscow. He entered Moscow State University, and since its graduation in 1933 he has been closely engaged in journalistic activities. He worked alternately in several major periodicals, in 1943 he came to Pravda, and from 1949 until the last days of his life he worked in the editorial office of the Znameni, being the editor-in-chief of this magazine.
All this time, starting from 1930, Kozhevnikov wrote stories and stories, after the war his main works came out - the novels "Shield and Sword", which received an incredibly popular film adaptation, "Dawn to meet", "At noon on the sunny side", also the filmed "Meet Baluyev".
The writer’s daughter, Nadezhda, who has lived abroad since 1983, also tied her fate to literary work, becoming a journalist.
The novelist died on October 20, 1984.