Kozhevnikov, Vadim Mikhailovich

Vadim Kozhevnikov was born April 9 (22), 1909 in the village. Togur of the Narym Territory of Tomsk Province in a family of exiled Social Democrats . In 1910-1925 he lived with his parents in Tomsk .

In 1925 he moved to Moscow. He studied at the Moscow State University at the literary department of the ethnological faculty , graduating in 1933 . His first story was published in 1929 in the journal Rost. Since 1933 he worked as a journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda , the magazines Ogonyok , Smena , and Our Achievements. Began to publish in 1930 (the first story - “Port” ). In 1939, the first collection of his short stories, “Night Talk,” was released . Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1940.

During the Great Patriotic War, Vadim Mikhailovich was a war correspondent for the front-line newspaper, and since 1943, the newspaper Pravda ^[1] . Participated in the capture of Berlin .

In 1947 - 1948 he served as editor of the department of literature and art of the newspaper Pravda .

From 1949 until his death, the chief editor of the banner . According to a number of unconfirmed sources, being at this post allegedly handed over to the KGB (according to other sources - to the CPSU Central Committee ) the manuscript of the novel by S. S. Grossman “Life and Fate” . But it is more likely that the manuscript of Grossman was requested by the Central Committee of the CPSU from the editorial board of the Banner, which is more consistent with the norms of that time ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]} . At the same time, V. Kozhevnikov’s daughter, Nadezhda Kozhevnikova , denies his father’s transfer of information about the novel to “ punitive organs ”, and believes that “ ... a manuscript of such a volume, and even with such dangerous insights, Hitler-Stalin parallels, fascism-communism should was sent to the Central Committee, to the ideological sector ”in any case ^[10] . M. Tubli supports the point of view of Nadezhda Kozhevnikova, noting also the absence of “documents or evidence” confirming the fact that the manuscript or information about the novel was transmitted to the Central Committee on the initiative of Kozhevnikov ^[11] . In turn, A. I. Solzhenitsyn , who was very knowledgeable in the life of the editorial board of the New World magazine, wrote in the book “ Butt calf with oak ”, “I remember how Grossman’s novel was taken from the Novomirov’s safe” .

Secretary of the Board of the Joint Venture of the USSR (since 1967) and Joint Venture of the RSFSR (since 1970). The delegate of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU (1981). Member of the Council of the Union of the USSR Armed Forces of 7-11 convocations (1966-1984) from the Samarkand region .

On August 31, 1973 V. M. Kozhevnikov signed a letter from a group of Soviet writers to the editorial office of the Pravda newspaper about A. I. Solzhenitsyn and A. D. Sakharov . The letter said: “Solzhenitsyn openly violates Soviet laws, behaves unconstitutionally. He supports the propaganda of war, opposes detente. It is necessary to calmly resolve the issue of his expulsion from the USSR ” ^[12] .

He was buried at the Peredelkino cemetery .

Vadim Kozhevnikov wrote mainly stories and short stories, his pen belongs to the novels “Meet Baluev” and “The Shield and the Sword” (1965, about the work of the Soviet intelligence officer in the German rear), based on which the films of the same name “Meet Baluev” and “The Shield” were shot and the sword ” , the novel“ The Great Call ”(1940),“ The Terrible Weapon ”(1941), the story“ March — April ”(1942, the film of the same name was created on it), the play“ The Fate of Reginald Davis ”(1947, together with I. L. Prut )) ^[1] . The most successful is his front-line prose, written during the war years ^[13] .

• Collected works in 9 volumes. M .: Fiction , 1985-1988
• Collected works in 6 volumes. M .: Fiction, 1968-1971
• "In Great People's China" , Moscow: Pravda , 1952

Novels

• Towards the Dawn , 1956-1957 (novel about the revolution and the establishment of Soviet power in Siberia)
• “Meet Baluev!” , Moscow, 1960 (production novel about the engineer and organizer, the communist Baluev, building a gas pipeline in Siberia)
• “ Shield and Sword ” , M., 1965 (a novel about a Soviet intelligence officer, introduced to the Abwehr shortly before the war )
• "At noon on the sunny side" , Moscow: Military Publishing , 1973
• “Roots and Crown” , M., 1983 (production novel)

Tale

• The Great Call , Moscow: Soviet writer , 1940
• Steppe trip. M., 1940
• Terrible weapon , 1941
• Day is flying. M., 1963
• "Special Unit" , M., 1969
  • Sidor Tsyplakov
  • "Peter Ryabinkin"
  • "Stepan Bukov" (about a Soviet worker who, having learned on-the-job from production, receives an engineering diploma and finally becomes a party leader)
• Years of fire. M., 1972
• Military happiness. M., 1977
• "Tales" , 1979, (the novels "Polyushko-Pole" , "Desert" , "White Night" , "The River Poured" and "On a Long Voyage" )
• It was. M., 1980
• Polyushko-field. M., 1982

Stories and Essays

• The Port , 1930
• The Ninth Banner , 1933
• "Night conversation" , M., 1939 (storybook)
• Heavy Hand , 1941 (storybook)
• March-April , 1942
• “Measure of hardness” , M., Young Guard, 1942
• "Tales of the War" , 1942 (storybook)
• "House without a number" , 1943
• “Beloved comrades” , M., Soviet writer, 1943
• “Workers of the war” , M., 1944 (storybook)
• Stories. M., Soviet writer, 1946
• “This is the strongest” , M., Pravda, 1947 (storybook)
• A boy from the outskirts. M .. 1953
• Live bridge. M .. 1954
• People of the new China. M., 1954
• People are proud of such. M., 1955
• The roads of war. M., 1955
• A thousand jing. M., 1955
• Beloved comrades. M., 1959
• The tree of Life. M., 1979
• The ability to win. M., 1987

Pieces

• “The Fate of Reginald Davis” , 1947 (with I. L. Prut )
• "Fire River" , 1949
• Plays. M., Art, 1949

Movie Scenarios

• "March-April" , 1943 (together with N. Rozhkov)
• “ The Boy from the Outskirts ”, 1947 (together with I. L. Prut )
• “ In a single formation ”, 1959
• "Hello, Gnat", 1962
• “Shield and Sword” , 1968 (together with V. P. Basov )
• “Meet Baluev!” , 1963 (together with V. G. Komissarzhevsky )
• "Peter Ryabinkin", 1972 (together with D. Vyatich-Berezhnykh)

• USSR State Prize (1971) ^[1] - for the novel "Pyotr Ryabinink" (1968) "Special Unit" (1969)
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1974) ^[1]
• two orders of Lenin (10/28/1967; 09/27/1974) ^[1]
• Order of the October Revolution (07/02/1971)
• two orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (06.16.1945; 09.23.1945)
• two orders of the Red Banner of Labor (04/29/1959; 04/20/1979)
• Order of the Red Star (10/07/1942)
• medals

Married since 1945

• wife - Victoria Yuryevna (1917-1977, former wife of the hero of the pilot Ilya Mazuruk )
  • daughter from his wife’s first marriage - Irina Mazuruk (1936-1985), screenwriter, married to writer Vil Lipatov
  • daughter - Nadezhda Kozhevnikova ^[14] (born 1949), writer
  • daughter - Ekaterina Kozhevnikova (born 1954), composer

• Kozhevnikov, Vadim Mikhailovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Kozhevnikov, Vadim Mikhailovich // Brief Literary Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A.A. Surkov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1962-1978.
• Kozhevnikov, Vadim Mikhailovich // Encyclopedia " Around the World ."