SURKOV Alexey

Surkov, Aleksey (1.10.1899, d Sereznevo Rybinsk district of Yaroslavl province - 14.6.1983), poet, social activist, Lieutenant Colonel (1943), Hero of Socialist Labor (1969), twice winner of the Stalin Prize (1946, 1951). Educated in the literary faculty of the Institute of Red Professors (1934). Member of the Civil and the Soviet-Finnish war. In 1925 joined the Communist Party (b). Wrote jingoistic patriotic poem, glorifying the heroism of the Civil War. In 1934, made the collection of "peers", and then the other. The author of texts of popular songs, among which the most famous were "Konarmejskij", "a slap in the close stove fire," "Song of the brave", etc.. A typical example of his work are poems, published in Pravda 26.1.1937 during the trial in the case of "parallel anti-Soviet Trotskyite Center":

. That's all they are: - lackeys generals
. Spies by blood and friends spies --
. Serebryakov, Sokolnikov, Muralov,
. Radek duplicitous, cowardly Pyatakov
.
Death of a scoundrel, to defame the confidence
Steeped in the victories of the country!

During the Great Patriotic War, the military correspondent Krasnoarmeyskaya truth "and" Red Star ", released 10 volumes of poetry, in t.ch. Roads leading to the West "(1942), Soldiers' Heart" and "Poems of hatred" (1943), "Songs of the angry heart" and "punishing Russia" (1944). In 1944 the chief editor of the Literary Gazette, in 1945-53 - the magazine Ogonyok. After World War II has always felt the situation well Surkov, fulfilling the social order, wrote poetry, calling for the struggle for peace (Collection "The world - the world", 1950). Since 1949 Secretary, 1950-53 Vice., 1 st Vice. Secretary General of the Union of Soviet Writers. Actively participated in the persecution of "not appropriate" party line of writers, singer of the Stalin era. In 1952-56 a member of the Central Auditing Commission CPSU, in 1956-66 a candidate member of the CPSU Central Committee. In 1953-59 1 st Secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers. Since 1954 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.