Author: Vsevolod Ovchinnikov
Alternate names: Всеволод Овчинников
Born: 17 November 1926
Died: 30 August 2021
Bio: Vsevolod Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Все́волод Влади́мирович Овчи́нников) was a Soviet and Russian journalist and writer-publicist, one of the leading Soviet postwar international journalists; orientalist and expert on Japan and China.

Ovchinnikov was born in Leningrad. For nearly forty years he was a correspondent and political columnist for Pravda, and was a columnist in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Author of books A Branch of Sakura (The Story of What Kind of People the Japanese) (1970), Roots of Oak (Impressions and Thoughts about England and the English) (1980), Hot Ashes (Chronicle of a Secret Race for the Possession of Nuclear Weapons). For these books in 1985 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.