death_date death_place years_active birth_place awards birth_date birthname image article_title name occupation
14 november 1943 nevel , pskov oblast , ussr 1924 -- 1943 penza , russian empire order of lenin of the red banner -lrb- twice -rrb- order 30 july 1900 Владимир Петрович Кирпичников stavskiy.jpg vladimir stavsky
 vladimir petrovich stavsky writer editor literary administrator
vladimir stavsky

vladimir petrovich stavsky -lrb- Владимир Петрович Ставский ; born kirpichnikov , Кирпичников ; july 30 , 1900 , penza , russian empire , -- november 14 , 1943 , nevel , pskov oblast , ussr -rrb- was a soviet writer , editor -lrb- in 1937 -- 1941 , of `` novy mir '' -rrb- and literary administrator , the head of the soviet union of writers in 1936 -- 1941 .
as the 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 -lrb- where he was severely injured -rrb- and finally to the western front where in 1943 he was killed in combat .
