Vladimir Stavsky

Vladimir Petrovich Stavsky
Born	Vladimir Petrovich Kirpichnikov (1900-07-30)30 July 1900 Penza, Russian Empire
Died	14 November 1943(1943-11-14) (aged 43) Nevel, Pskov Oblast, USSR
Occupation(s)	writer editor literary administrator
Years active	1924–1943
Awards	Order of the Red Banner (2) Order of Lenin

Vladimir Petrovich Stavsky (Владимир Петрович Ставский; born Kirpichnikov, Кирпичников; 30 July 1900 – 14 November 1943) was a Soviet Russian writer, editor (in 1937–1941, of Novy Mir) and literary administrator, the head of the Soviet Union of Writers in 1936–1941. As World War II broke out, Stavsky relinquished his posts and, as a war correspondent for Pravda newspaper, went first to Mongolia then to the Winter War (where he was severely injured) and finally to the Western front where in 1943 he was killed in combat.^[1]