Victor Pavlovich Kin was an essayist, novelist and publicist. Member of the Civil War.
Background
Victor Pavlovich Kin (real surname Surovikin) was born on January 1, 1903 in Novokhopersk Station, Voronezh Oblast', Russian Federation. From the family of a train driver, who finally settled in 1912 in Borisoglebsk, Tambov Governorate (now Voronezh Oblast, Russian Federation).
Education
Victor Pavlovich studied at the Institute of Red Professors (1928-1930).
Career
In 1922, Victor Pavlovic was sent to the party underground in the Far East. He began his literary activity in Yekaterinburg (1923). Since 1925, a columnist of the Moscow newspapers "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and "Pravda".
In 1931-1936 was a correspondent of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union in Italy and France. In November 1937, was unreasonably repressed, later was shot.
The famous Kin's novel is "On the Other Side" (Moscow, 1928), which was later reprinted many times, was drafted, filmed, translated into many foreign languages. The novel is largely autobiographical. His essay "My departure for the Polish front" (unfinished) is also an autobiographical.