Vsevolod Kochetov

Vsevolod Anissimovich Kochetov
BornВсеволод Анисимович Кочетов
(1912-02-04)4 February 1912
Novgorod, Russian Empire
Died4 November 1973(1973-11-04) (aged 61)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
OccupationAgronomist, Journalist, Novelist, Editor
LanguageRussian
NationalitySoviet
EducationTechnical school
Notable worksThe Zhurbin Family
Brothers Yershov
What Do You Want Then?
Notable awardsOrder of Lenin

Vsevolod Anissimovich Kochetov (Russian: Все́волод Ани́симович Ко́четов) (4 February [O.S. 22 January] 1912, Novgorod, Russian Empire - 4 November 1973, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian writer and cultural functionary. He has been described as a party dogmatist and as a classic of socialist realism. Some of his writings were not well received by the official press, as Kochetov was considered too "reactionary" even by Soviet standards of the 1960s.