Aleksandr Fadeyev

Writer Dec 24 (died age 54) Kimry, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire [now Russia] 1931–1981 (50 year career)

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Biography

Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (1901–1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954. In 1930, he published the first part of the novel The Last of the Udege, on which he continued working the rest of his life (an edition containing the second volume, all he was able to complete, was published in 1940). In 1945, he wrote the novel, The Young Guard (based upon real events of World War II) about the underground Komsomol organiza…