Олександр Корнійчук

Aleksandr Korneichuk (May 12 (25), 1905 - May 14, 1972, Kiev) - Ukrainian Soviet writer and politician, playwright, journalist. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1943), Doctor of Philology (1943). Hero of Socialist Labor (1967), Laureate of five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1951) and the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1960). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940.