Historical FigureFemale
Zoja Ivanovna Voskresenskaja
1907 – 1992
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryZoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children. A USSR State Prize laureate (1968), Voskresenskaya was best known for her novels Skvoz Ledyanuyu Mglu and Serdtse Materi. Between 1962 and 1980 more than 21 million of her books were sold in the USSR.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
April 15, 1907
Uzlovaya
Date of death
January 8, 1992
Moscow
Citizenship
Soviet Union · Russia
Occupations & fields
writerchildren's writershort story writerprose writerspy
Awards & honours
USSR State PrizeOrder of LeninOrder of the October RevolutionLenin Komsomol PrizeOrder of the Red Banner of LabourOrder of the Red Star
- Field and occupation
- ruská spisovatelka, autorka literatury pro děti, též sovětská špiónka
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