On November 23, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Victor Kurochkin, a writer, was put into postal circulation

Victor Kurochkin (1923-1976) was a writer, a scriptwriter, a playwright and a journalist; a participant in the Great Patriotic War.

Victor Kurochkin was born in the village of Kushnikovo (presently the Staritsky District of the Tver Region). In June of 1942, he was drafted into the army and sent first to the Ulyanovsk Guards Tank School and in March of 1943, to the 2nd Kiev Artillery School in Saratov. On June 20 of the same year, Lieutenant Victor Kurochkin was appointed a SU-85 commander in the 1893rd Automotive Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. His combat path: the Kursk Salient, liberation of Left-Bank Ukraine, the Dnieper assault crossing, liberation of Kiev and Lvov.

After the War, he graduated from the Leningrad Law School, in 1949-1951, he worked as a judge in the village of Utorgosh of the Novgorod Region, then as a journalist in the Leningradskaya Pravda and Smena newspapers. In 1959, he graduated from the extension department of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

His first attempts at writing were war memoirs, and later on, his novel Unequal Battle was released. He made his debut in literature with story The Shepherd (1952), then the Young Leningrad almanac published his story Yaba (1956), which was the beginning of his novel Notes of People's Judge Semyon Buzykin (1962).

Victor Kurochkin is the author of such books as Short Childhood, Nadenka from Apalyovo, The Nailed-Up House, of stage play Kozyrikha and others. The most famous work of the writer is his novel At War as at War, which entered the golden fund of the Russian military prose. The story was published in 1965 and screened in 1968.

The commemorative stamp features a portrait of Victor Kurochkin and a scribbling pad; the main illustration shows an image of an unfolded book with a scene of a tank battle.

In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka produced special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tver.


Design Artist: Kh. Betredinova.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes.

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