Wadym Sobko

Вадим Николаевич Собко, Wadim Nikolayevich Sobko (born May 5, 1912 in Moscow, died September 12, 1981 in Kiev) - Soviet writer, winner of the Stalin Prize (1951) Lieutenant Colonel (1949).

The son of a professional soldier. In 1930 he graduated from the vocational school, in 1939 the philological faculty of Kiev State University.

He began publishing his work in 1930. In the years 1930-1934 he worked as a locksmith at Kharkov Tractor Factory. The popularity brought him the trilogy "Zoriani hid" (1937-1950).

Since 1940 he was a member of the WKP (b). In June 1941 he joined RChACz; He participated in combat activities. He co-operated with the 9th Army's "Rodina's Scrapper" and the 5 "Soviet Boyz" Strike Force. During the storming of Berlin he was seriously wounded. He was the author of a large number of articles and reports, the trilogy of the "Zlr zori" (novels "Krow Ukrajiny", 1943, "Kawkaz", 1946, "Wohoń Stalinhrad", 1947), "Dałekyj front" (1948) (1952), "The Stadium" (1956), "The Peace Handbook" (1965, "Zaporuka myru"), "Madonna" (1973), "Naholnyj kriaż" 1949, "Behind the Druids Front"), the stories of "Fourth Company" (1965, "Chetwerta rota") and others. From 1946 to 1947 he worked in the editorial office of the Army newspaper, in the years 1947-1949 as the head of the culture department of the newspaper "Soviet Russia" at the Soviet Military Administration in Berlin.

In 1949 he was demobilized. Bibliography Authoritative control (person):

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