Sergey Smirnov (writer)
Sergey Smirnov | |
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Smirnov, 1956 | |
| Born | September 26, 1915 Petrograd, Russian Empire |
| Died | March 22, 1976 (aged 60) Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Writer, television presenter, radio host |
| Nationality | Russian |
Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Смирно́в; 1915–1976) was a Soviet writer, a historian, a radio- and TV-presenter, a public figure, a Lenin Prize winner (1965). Member of the RCP(b) since 1946.
Smirnov was born into an engineer's family. He quit Moscow Power Engineering Institute without getting a degree and entered the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. In 1941 he went to the front. After the war he worked as an editor in Voenizdat.
Sergey was the deputy editor-in-chief of Novy Mir (November 1953 – October 1954), the editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta in 1959—1960. The Secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers (1975—1976).
Smirnov was famous for his books about heroes of the Great Patriotic War. He did a lot to immortalize heroic deeds of unknown soldiers and to find soldiers missing in action.