Vasily Alexandrovich Smirnov
Soviet writer
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| Intro | Soviet writer | ||||||||||||||
| Places | Russia | ||||||||||||||
| was | Writer | ||||||||||||||
| Work field | Literature | ||||||||||||||
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| Birth | 31 December 1904, Yaroslavl Governorate, Russian Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Death | 19 October 1979Moscow, Russia (aged 74 years) | ||||||||||||||
| Star sign | Capricorn | ||||||||||||||
| Politics: | Communist Party Of The Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||
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Vasily Alexandrovich Smirnov (Russian: Васи́лий Алекса́ндрович Смирно́в; born December 31, 1904 O.S./January 13, 1905 N.S. in the village of Sinitsyno; died 1979) was a Russian/Soviet writer.
Having published his first work in 1924, Smirnov became a member of the CPSU in 1925. In 1960–1965, he was the editor-in-chief of the Druzhba Narodov magazine.