Occupation writer Books Heroes of Brest Fortress Great grandchild Danila Ippolitov | Nationality Russian Children Andrei Smirnov | |
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Born September 13, 1915Saint Petersburg, Former USSR ( 1915-09-13 ) Grandchildren Avdotya Smirnova, Aleksey Smirnov, Aleksandra Smirnova, Aglaya Smirnova Similar Andrei Smirnov, Avdotya Smirnova, Natalya Rudnaya, Yelena Prudnikova | ||
Sergey Smirnov (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.
S. Smirnov 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).
S. 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.