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Oct 01, 1899 Died on 14 Jun 1983 (aged 83)
Soviet poet and critic
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About Alexey Surkov
- Alexey Alexandrovich Surkov (Russian: ??????´? ??????´??????? ?????´?, October 13, 1899 in Yaroslavl Province, Russian Empire – June 14, 1983 in Moscow, USSR) was a Russian Soviet poet, editor, literary critic and high-profile nomenklatura figure, the head of the Soviet Union of Writers in 1953–1959.Surkov, a war correspondent during the Great Patriotic War (who took an active part in fighting at the Battle of Moscow and on the Belorussian Front), received numerous state awards, including the Orders of Red Banner and the Red Star (twice), four Orders of Lenin and two Stalin Prizes.The author of numerous poetry books, he is best remembered for his poems that were adapted into songs: "The March of the Defenders of Moscow" (composer Boris Mokrousov, 1942), "Not a Step Back", T.
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- Kuliyev, 1942), "The Song of the Brave Ones" (V.
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- Bely, 1941) and, most famously, "Zemlyanka" (Konstantin Listov, 1941).
