Vladimir Voinovich

Vladimir Voinovich
Voinovich in 1986
Born	(1932-09-26)26 September 1932 Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union
Died	27 July 2018(2018-07-27) (aged 85) Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Occupation	Writer
Years active	1960–2018
Notable work	The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1969–2007) Moscow 2042 (1986) Monumental Propaganda (2000)
Awards	Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage, State Prize of the Russian Federation
Voinovich's voice Recorded 14 December 2013 during an interview for Ekho Moskvy

Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Войно́вич, 26 September 1932 – 27 July 2018), was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system.^[1] Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and the dystopian Moscow 2042. He was forced into exile and stripped of his citizenship by Soviet authorities in 1980 but later rehabilitated and moved back to Moscow in 1990. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he continued to be an outspoken critic of Russian politics under the rule of Vladimir Putin.