Background
Vadim Kozevnikov was born in a family of Russian ethnicity in the Siberian town of Narym, Tomsk Governorate (present-day Kolpashevsky District, Tomsk Oblast), where his revolutionary-minded father, a physician, had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.
Education
Kozhevnikov studied literature and ethnology at Moscow State University, graduating in 1933.
Career
Kozhevnikov worked as a war correspondent for Pravda from 1941 to 1945, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union halfway into the German-Soviet War in 1943. He was elected secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1949. A full-scale overview of Kozhevnikov"s work, written by Soviet literary critic Iosif Grinberg, was published in Moscow in 1972.
Politics
Kozhevnikov was officially recognized as a Hero of Socialist Labor for his contributions to Soviet literature and was elected to one term as a politician to the Soviet Union"s Supreme Soviet.
Membership
He was a member of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.