Leonid Vulfovich Vilkomir ( March 4, 1912 , Bukhara - July 19, 1942 , under the village of Ermakovskaya, Rostov Region ) - Russian Soviet poet, journalist, war correspondent.
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| Birth name | Leonid Vulfovich Vilkomir |
| Date of Birth | March 4, 1912 |
| Place of Birth | Bukhara , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | July 19, 1942 (aged 30) |
| A place of death | Art. Ermakovskaya , Rostov Region , RSFSR , USSR |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Occupation | poet , journalist |
| Language of Works | Russian |
Biography
Since 1926 he lived in Moscow . He worked at the Borets factory. He joined the Sturm literary circle and published his first poems in the Literary Circle. In 1931 he moved to Nizhny Tagil , where he worked as an employee of the Tagilsky Rabochy newspaper, and then, since 1932, as executive secretary and deputy editor of the large-circulation newspaper Uralvagonstroy, which later became known as the Wagon Giant. He soon became a well-known journalist in the city, in Tagil he wrote most of his poems, mainly on the theme of the Urals , to which he devoted many essays and poems.
In 1934, Vilkomir entered to study at the Gorky Literary Institute .
In January 1937, a large article entitled “Hero Traits” was dedicated to the Tagil pilot, the first Hero of the Soviet Union of Nizhny Tagil S. A. Chernykh .
In 1938, he was drafted into the army and was sent to the editorial office of the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda .
Since the beginning of World War II - at the front. Senior Political Officer . Correspondent of the Red Star . He flew on combat aircraft, was part of tank crews.
The official report of the command of the part about the death of L. Vilkomir says:
“On July 19, 1942, a senior political instructor arrived at the airport, where 103 ShAPs are deployed. Vilkomir for obtaining information about the military operations of pilots. Upon learning of the upcoming departure of a group of aircraft on a combat mission, comrade Vilkomir began to ask to take him on a flight. The commander and commissar of the unit refused his request. Then comrade Vilkomir turned to Commander-in-Chief 216 IAD, who was at that time at the airport, Major General Aviation Shevchenko. The general at first refused the request, but then as a result of Comrade's insistent request. Vilkomira gave his consent. Comrade Vilkomir flew in a lead aircraft piloted by Comrade Lieutenant Maslov. When performing a combat mission, the plane was shot down from an enemy tank gun at an altitude of 400 meters and fell to the ground in the vicinity of Ermakovskaya station - the territory was occupied by the enemy. Pilot Lieutenant Comrade Maslov and comrade correspondent Vilkomir did not return to the unit. ”
Poems of the poet were included in the anthology "Soviet poets who fell in the Great Patriotic War" and "Stanzas of the century. Anthology of Russian poetry ”(compiled by Evgeny Yevtushenko , 1999 ).