Severov, Pyotr Fedorovich

The son of the gendarme of Tsarist Russia, which is why he took the pseudonym Severov . In the 1920s, he studied at the mining school. In 1925 - an ancillary at the Dagmar mine. Later he entered the only at that time artistic rabfak in Moscow. After graduating, he hired a fleet , went sailing on ships of Sovtorgflot. In 1933 he graduated from the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute . He lived and worked in the Far East, in 1937 he returned to Donbass . He worked at the editorial office of the Literary Donbass magazine.

He was published in newspapers and magazines ("Kharkov Worker", "Soviet Ukraine" (Kiev), " New World ", etc.).

At the end of the 1930s he moved to Kiev, the year he found war. He went to the front, served as a correspondent for army and front-line newspapers, and was awarded military orders and medals. The publishers of the Southern Front saw the light of his book Commissars in Combat, Heading West, Combat Flights of Peaceful Machines, etc.

He made his debut in 1934 in Stalino (now Donetsk ), where a collection of his short stories and essays “Novels about the Heart” was signed, signed with the pseudonym Severov.

Pyotr Severov is the author of novels, collections of documentary and adventure stories and short stories, short stories and essays.

The greatest glory to Pyotr Severov was brought by books on the marine theme - about the discoverers of new lands, sailors and sea adventures, of which he himself became a participant: “The Sea were” (1956), “In the Maritime Spaces”, “The Mariner from the City of Nizhyn” and many others .

In 1959, his famous novel “The Last Duel” (jointly with N. Khalemsky ) was published, dedicated to the “ Death Match ”, the football meeting of Dynamo Kyiv and the Luftwaffe team in occupied Kiev. The authors replaced the anti-aircraft gunners team with the Luftwaffe team of the German Air Force, although it is not known whether such a team existed at all.

• Order of the Patriotic War II degree (03/11/1985)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Red Star (05/20/1943)
• medals

• My city (1935)
• Sons (Short Story, 1935)
• The Test of the Hero (Short Story, 1935)
• Education of the will (1935)
• Maritime Encounters (Tales and Stories, 1935)
• Transparent stone (White Sea essays, 1936)
• The Way of the Master (1936)
• Short stories (1937)
• Education of the will (for children and youth, 1938)
• Krol (for children and youth, 1938)
• Dreadnoughts return to the West (Essays on the heroic struggle of Odessa Komsomol members against German and Anglo-French invaders, 1939)
• Pages of Life (1939)
• Fishermen (1939)
• Watchtower (1939)
• Trust (1940)
• Tales of Pilots (1943)
• Severyanka (1947)
• The Legacy of Makar Mazay (1947)
• The Generation of Makar Mazay (1948)
• Tales and Stories (1950)
• Spring in the Donbass (1951)
• One Night (1952)
• At different latitudes (1956)
• In the open spaces (1956)
• Miners
• Depths
• Stone passion
• Contemporaries
• Lords of stone and fire
• The warmth of your hand ...
• Works in two volumes (1980)
• If in love ... (1981)
• Yours, Fatherland, sons (1982)
• Meeting the Ocean (1983)
• Pages of wanderings (Book of short stories, essays, sketches, 1985)
• Serving Science and the Fatherland
• The Mystery of the Copper River
• The Legend of the Black Diamond (1986)
• Youth of Artyom (1986)
• a series of short stories “On the voyages”, “On the native seas”, “In the harsh years”, “Azov records”, “Ocean horizon”, etc.

• Severov (Ivanov) Petr Fedorovich