Sergey Smirnov (writer)
Sergey Smirnov was a Soviet writer, a historian, a radio- and TV-presenter, a public figure, a Lenin Prize winner. Member of the RCP 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, the editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta in 1959—1960. The Secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers.
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.
