Alexey Surkov

Alexey Alexandrovich Surkov
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Born	(1899-10-13)October 13, 1899 Yaroslavl Province, Russian Empire
Died	June 14, 1983(1983-06-14) (aged 83) Moscow, USSR
Occupation(s)	poet, editor, literary critic
Years active	1925–1970s
Spouse	Sofia Antonovna Krevs
Awards	Stalin Prize (1946, 1951) Order of Lenin (1959, 1967, 1969, 1979) Order of the Red Star (1940, 1942) Order of the Red Banner (1945)

Alexey Alexandrovich Surkov (Russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Сурко́в; October 13, 1899 – June 14, 1983) was a Russian Soviet poet, editor, literary critic and high-profile nomenklatura figure, the head of the Soviet Union of Writers in 1953–1959,^[1] notorious for his role in the persecution of Boris Pasternak