Vadim Kozhevnikov

Vadim Mikhaylovich Kozhevnikov (Вадим Михайлович Кожевников;, Narym – 20 October 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.

Biography
Vadim Kozevnikov was born in a family of Russian ethnicity in the Siberian town of Narym, Tomsk Governorate (present-day Kolpashevsky District, Tomsk Oblast), where his revolutionary-minded father, a physician, had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.

Kozhevnikov studied literature and ethnology at Moscow State University, graduating in 1933. Kozhevnikov worked as a war correspondent for Pravda from 1941 to 1945, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union halfway into the German-Soviet War in 1943. He was elected secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1949.

Kozhevnikov was officially recognized as a Hero of Socialist Labor for his contributions to Soviet literature and was elected to one term as a politician to the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet. He was awarded the USSR State Prize following the publication of two of his novels in 1971.

A full-scale overview of Kozhevnikov's work, written by Soviet literary critic Iosif Grinberg, was published in Moscow in 1972.

Kozhevnikov died on October 20, 1984 in Moscow, aged seventy-five.

Awards

 * Hero of Socialist Labour
 * Order of Lenin (2)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour
 * Order of the October Revolution
 * Order of the Patriotic War
 * Order of the Red Star
 * USSR State Prize

English translations

 * The Captain, from Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. from Archive.org
 * ''Shield and Sword: The amazing Career of a Soviet Agent in the Nazi Secret Service, MacGibbon and Kee, 1970.
 * Shield and Sword, Mayflower Books, 1973.
 * The Strong in Spirit, Progress Publishers, 1973.
 * Ivan Fomich, from Anthology of Soviet Short Stories, Vol 2, Progress Publishers, 1976.
 * Special Subunit: Two Novellas, Imported Publications, 1984.