№ 277/кор. 100th Birth Anniversary of Sergei Smirnov (1915‒1976), writer, historian

Sergey Smirnov was Russian and Soviet writer, historian, radio and television host, social activist, a veteran of World War II, Lenin Prize winner (1965).

He began to be published as a journalist in 1934. His books “Brest Fortress” (1957, the Lenin Prize in 1965), “Heroes of Brest Fortress” (1959), “Tales of the Unknown Heroes” (1963), “The Family” (1967), the play “Fortress of the Bug” (1955) and etc., as well as performances of Sergei Smirnov in the press, on the radio and television, in “Exploits” TV Almanac made an enormous contribution to the search for the missing and unknown heroes of the war.

An EWCS depicts a portrait of Sergei Smirnov, “Brest Fortress”, “Tales of the Unknown Heroes”, “Pages of National Heroism” book covers with Kholmsky gate of the memorial complex “Brest Fortress” on the background.