Vladimir Stavsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vladimir Stavsky

Soviet author and literary official

Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1900

Place of Birth: Penza, Penza Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 14-Nov-1943

Profession: writer, politician, contributing editor, journalist, prosaist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Vladimir Petrovich Stavsky (???????? ???????? ????????; born Kirpichnikov, ???????????; 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.