Simonov Konstantin Mikhailovich works about the war. Literary and historical notes of a young technique
(to the 100th anniversary of K. M. Simonova)
The year of the 70th anniversary of the victory coincided with the 100-year anniversary of the poet and the warrior Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov. Konstantin Simonov became one of the symbols of military pore, like his famous poem "Wait for me" - spell, prayer. His dust was dispelled on the field in the buinylone, which under the grave, where he once fought, where heroes of his famous novel "Live and Dead" Serpilin and Sintsov met.
Konstantin (Kirill) Mikhailovich Simonov was born in 1915 in Petrograd in the family of the Tsarist General and Princess from the ancient Russian family (nee Princess Obolenskaya). He never saw his father: he disappeared at the front to the First World War (as the writer noted in the official biography). The boy brought up stepfather, who taught tactics in military schools, and then became the commander of the Red Army. Konstantin's childhood passed in military towns and commander hostels. After graduating from seven classes, he entered the factory school (FMU), worked as a metal to the metal first in Saratov, and then in Moscow, where the family moved in 1931.
From 1934 to 1938 he studied in the literary institute. M. Gorky.
The war for Simonov began not in forty-first, and at the thirty-ninth year on Halchin-goal, where it turned out to be needed a poet. The editor of the newspaper of our group of troops "Heroic Krasnoarmeyskaya", which was published in Mongolia, sent a telegram to the political enforcement of the army: "I urgently send the poet." It was there that he received the first literary military experience, many new emphasis of his creativity were determined. In addition to essays and reports, the correspondent will bring a cycle of verses from the Theater of Military Action, which will soon receive all-union fame.
Front-line correspondents K. Simonov (left), I. Zotov, E. Cryger, I. Utkin in the front-line strip in the days of Moscow defense
From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, Konstantin Simonov was in the existing army. He visited all the fronts as a military correspondent, was directly and in chains of counterattacking infantrymen, walked with a survey of the front line, participated in a military campaign of a submarine, was among the defenders of Odessa, Stalingrad, in Yugoslav partisans, in advanced parts: during Kursk Battle, Belarusian operation, in final operations to liberate Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. Simonov attended the first process of war criminals in Kharkov, and in the newly liberated Auschwitz and in many other places where the decisive events of the war took place. In 1945, Simonov witnessed the last battle for Berlin. He was present at the signing of Hitler's surrender in Karlshort. Awarded with four battle orders.
After the "TRANSFER" was printed by the poem "Wait for me", dedicated to the beloved woman - actress Valentine Serovoy, K. Simonov became the most famous and revered poet in the country.
Valentina Serov. Frame from the movie "Wait for Me."
Valentina Serov and Konstantin Simonov on the front.
The "military theme" became life and fate of the poet Konstantin Simonov, entered his lyrics not the roar of artillery, but a piercing melody, courageous and tender. His verses of love and loyalty, about valor and cowardice, friendship and betrayal - soldiers passed each other, rewriting. They helped survive.
"As I survived, we will know
Only we and you "
Prose K. Simonova - Men's prose. His war of volume, he sees it from different points and angles, fluently moving in its space from the trenches of the front edge to the army headquarters and deep rear. The first novel "Comrades in Arms" is devoted to the events in Halkin-goal, printed in 1952.
One of the most famous works about the Great Patriotic War is a big truthful work, the trilogy "live and dead". She became an epic artistic narration about the path of the Soviet people to victory in the Great Patriotic War. The author joined the two plan - a reliable chronicle of the major events of war, seen by the eyes of the main characters of Serpilin, Sintin, and analyzing these events from the point of view of modern author of their understanding and evaluation.
In the second part of the trilogy, "soldiers are not born" - the Stalingrad battle, unrequited by the truth of life and war in the new stage - the borrowing of science to defeat. Belarus of 1944, the offensive Operation "Bagration" - these events formed the basis of the third book, which Simonov called the "Last Summer".
Simonovo won dispel his dust on the raspiece field under Mogilev, where in 1941 he managed to get out of the environment. On a memorable sign, it was inscribed: "All my life he remembered this battlefield, and here he won his dust to dispel."
Bas-relief in Arsenyev (Primorsky Kraz) (sculptor - the city of Chazzhazzles) is installed on the facade of the Askold Culture Palace, where in August 1967, Konstantin Simonov spoke to the residents of Arsenyev, giving the fee for one of his books on the construction of a monument to the Writer in .TO. Arsenyev.
According to Simonov scenarios, films were set: "Guy from our city" (1942), "Wait for me" (1943), "Days and Nights" (1944), "Immortal Garnis (1956)," Normandy-Neman "(1960, Together with S. Spaacomi, E.Tril), "Live and Dead" (1964)
Read Books KM Simonova in the libraries of the CBS:
Simonov, KM Through the eyes of a man of my generation: Reflections about I.V. Stalin / K.M. Simonov. - M.: True, 1990.- 428c.
Simonov, KM Wait for me, and I will return / C.M.Simonov. - M.: Ast, Astrel, 2010. - 352c.: Il.
Storage: TsGB, Library №9
Simonov, KM "Wait for me ...": poems / KM Simonov; Hood A. Polelkov. - M.: Children., 2012. - 286c.: Il. (School library)
Storage: Library Complex "Green World", Livadia Library complex, Library №10, Library №14
The book includes the elected poems of Konstantin Simonov, written from 1937 to 1976, in the last author's event.
Trilogy "Live and Dead":
Simonov, KM Live and dead: novel / KM Simonov. - M.: Ast, TransitKniga, 2004. - 509 p. - (World Classic)
Storage: CGB
Simonov, KM Live and dead: novel in z-kn. KN.1. Sorry and dead/ KM Simonov. - M.: Art. lit., 1990.- 479 p.
Storage: Library №4, Library № 23
Simonov, KM Live and dead: novel in 3-kN. KN.2. Soldiers are not born/ K.M.Simonov. - M.: Art., 1990. - 735 p.
Simonov, KM Live and dead [Text]: Roman in 3-kN. KN.3. Last Summer / KM Simonov. - M.: Art. lit., 1989. - 574 p.
Storage: Library №4, Library №23
Simonov, KM Live and dead: novel in 3-kN. KN.3. Last Summer/ KM Simonov. - M.: Enlightenment, 1982. - 510 p. - (School library)
Storage: TsGB, TSDUB, Library Complex "Green Mir", Livadia Library complex, Library complex "Family", Library №9, Library №10, Library №14, Library №15.
Simonov, KM Different faces of war [Text]: diaries, poems, prose; to the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory/ KM Simonov; Cost. A. Simonov. - M.: Eksmo, 2004.- 639c.
Storage: Library №23 
The preparation of information used resources of libraries and the Internet.
Information prepared Irina Khrichenko.
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (November 28, 1915, Petrograd - August 28, 1979, Moscow) - Russian Soviet Writer, Poet, public figure.
Born in Petrograd, was raised by stepfather, a teacher of the military school. Children's years passed in Ryazan and Saratov.
After graduating from 1930, the seventels in Saratov, went to study on Tokary. In 1931, the family moved to Moscow, and Simonov, after graduating here, fabricated accurate mechanics here, goes to work at the plant. At the same years, poetry begins to write poems. He worked until 1935.
In 1936, the first poems K. Simonov were printed in Journals "Young Guard" and "October". Having finished the literary institute. M. Gorky in 1938, Simonov entered the graduate school of IFLI (Institute of History, Philosophy, Literature), but in 1939 he was sent as a military correspondent to Halkin-Goal in Mongolia and the Institute was no longer returned.
In 1940 he wrote his first play "The Story of One Love", set on the stage of the theater. Leninsky Komsomol; In 1941 - the second - "guy from our city." During the year, it is studied at the courses of military correspondents at the Military Political Academy, the military rank of the initant of the second rank is obtained.
With the beginning of the war, it was called to the army, he worked in the newspaper "Combat". In 1942 he was awarded the title of senior battalion commissioner, in 1943 - the title of lieutenant colonel, and after the war - Colonel. Most of his military correspondence was published in the "Red Star". During the war years, the play "Russian people", "wait for me", "so it will be", the story "Days and Nights", two books of poems "With you and without you" and "War".
After the war, his collections of essays appeared: "Letters from Czechoslovakia", "Slavic friendship", "Yugoslav Notebook", "From Black to the Barents Sea. Notes of the Military Correspondent. "
After the war for three years he stayed in numerous foreign business trips (Japan, USA, China). From 1958 to 1960, he lived in Tashkent as a correspondent of "Pravda" in the republics of Central Asia.
The first novel "Comrades in Arms" saw the light in 1952, then a big book - "live and dead" (1959). In 1961 the theater "Contemporary" put the play Simonov "Fourth". In 1963 - 64 he writes the novel "soldiers are not born." (In 1970 - 71, the continuation will be written - "Last Summer".)
According to Simonov scenarios, films were set: "The guy from our city", "Wait for me", "Days and Nights", "Immortal Garniszon", "Normandy-Neman", "Live and Dead".
In 1974 he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Books (6)
So-called personal life
"... twenty years ago, during the work on the trilogy" live and dead ", I conceived another book - from the notes of the Lopatina, the book about the life of a military correspondent and the people of the war seen by his eyes.
Between 1957 and 1963, the head of this future book were printed by me as separate, but at the same time, a small story ("Panteleev", "Levashov", "Inomes and Mardine", "Wife came") were printed by each other with a different hero. Subsequently, all these things I connected in one story, calling her "four steps". And the story started in it continued and finished two more leaders ("twenty days without war" and "We will not see you with you ...").
So this novel was formed in three planes "the so-called personal life", which I suggest readers. " Konstantin Simonov
Different faces of war. Tale, poems, diaries
The book "Different Faces of War" consists of four blocks: diaries, stories and verses associated with a total time and a place of action.
Many details of the diaries find comprehension in the onasses, many poems shall apply or detect the attacks described in the prose of events. The fifth block, "Stalin and War", summarizes the many years of reflections to KM Simonov about Stalin and his role in the huge mechanism of the Great War.
The war turned Simonov to prose. At first, Simonov appeals to journalism, as work to the newspaper requires efficiency in the events. But soon, Simonov's stories began to appear on the "Red Star" pages. That's what he wrote about it later:
"Going to the war by the military correspondent of the newspaper" Red Star ", I was going to be able to write stories about the war. I thought to write anything: articles, correspondence, essays, but not the stories. And about the first six months of war so it turned out.
But once in the winter of 1942, I called me a newspaper editor and said:
Listen, Simonov, remember when you returned from the Crimea, did you tell me about the Commissioner, who said that the brave die less often?
Before, I replied that I remember.
So, "said the editor," Would you write about this topic about the story. This idea is important and, in essence, fair.
I left the editor with a timidity in the shower. I never wrote stories, and the offer is somewhat frightened.
But when I shifted in my notebook Pages related to the Commissioner, about whom the editor spoke, so many memories and thoughts flew to me that I myself wanted to write a story about this person ... I wrote the story of the "Third Adjutant" - the first story that in general Posted in his life "Quote. By: Orterberg D. What I knew him // Konstantin Simonov in the memoirs of contemporaries. - M., 1984. - P.95-96 ..
In his prosaic work, K. Simonov did not depart from its basic literary principles: he wrote about the war as a serious and dangerous work of the people, showing what efforts and victims are to us every day. He wrote with the harsh mercury and frankness of a man who saw war as it is. K. Simonov comprehends the problem of the relationship of war and man. The war is inhuman, cruel and destructive, but it causes a huge increase in civil activity and conscious heroism.
Many biographers describing the military activities of K. Simonov as a correspondent and writer, they say, based on its works, about his personal courage. K. Simonov himself disagree with this. In a letter L.A. Finka December 6, 1977, he writes: "I saw the" big courage "people in war, had an internal opportunity to compare them with me. So, on the basis of this comparison, I can argue that I myself was not a man of "big personal courage". I think that a man of debt, in general, was usually, but not over. The soldier did not feel himself, sometimes, in the course of circumstances, it turned out in the skins of a soldier in the sense that it turned out in the same position, temporarily, and not constantly, - which is very important. You can feel a soldier who is long and constantly in the position of a soldier. I am in this position for a long time and constantly "Simonov K. Letters of the War. 1943-1979. - M., 1990. - S. 608-609 .. In Prose Simonov, we find a story about the "big courage" and the heroism of the soldier - an ordinary fighter and officer.
When Simonov appealed to prose, he immediately realized her features and advantages. The prose allowed him more detail and thoroughly engage in a socio-psychological study of man. Already the first story K. Simonov allows you to say how many features of the Simon prose were made. Very Skupor, only with separate details of the narrative of direct battle episodes, Simonov focuses on the moral and ideological basis of actions. He tells not only about how a man behaves in war, but and why his hero comes so, and not otherwise.
Simonov's interest in the inner world of their heroes should be especially emphasized, because many critics are convinced of an empirical, informative character of his prose. The life experience of the military correspondent, the imagination and talent of the artist, closely interacting with each other, helped Simonov to essentially avoid both hazards - and descriptions, and illustrative. For a journalist's prose - such a characteristic of military prose K. Simonov is widespread, including under its own influence. "I did not want to separate essays from the stories," he wrote, reprinting his front prose, because the difference between those and others mostly only in the names - genuine and fictional; For most stories are living people. " Such self-characteristic is not entirely objective, as the essays are inferior to the stories of K. Simonov and according to the degree of generalization, and in the depth of philosophical issues.
The essence of the Simonian military prose in opposition life and death, and in their inextricable communication in the war. "In war, the Will-Neils have to get used to death" - these calm and at the same time meaningful words from the widely known story "Immortal Surname" are exposed to the very essence of Simonov's military prose. It is important to note that, remembering "his first and very strong impression of war" simonov in 1968 will write that such an impression of the "big and ruthless course of events, in which suddenly, thinking no longer about others, and you yourself feel like The heart breaks, as a minute pity himself, his body, which can be so easy to destroy ... "Simonov K. from Halchin-goal to Berlin. - M.: Publishing House DOSAAF, 1973. - P.8 ..
And the writer, and his heroes, being on the front line, were immediately forced to realize that cruel evidence that death in peace life - an emergency event, an exclusive, exploding the normal course of everyday life, hostile events, - here, on the front, becomes precious, phenomenon Everyday, domestic. At the same time, as they say in the story of the "third adjutant", in a peaceful life "unexpected death - misfortune or chance," and in the war she "always unexpected", because he struck not people of patients, old, often already exhausted life and even tired of It, and young, energetic, healthy. This pattern of unexpected, the normality of the unusual, normality is abnormal and forces people to revise all the established ideas, find new criteria for human values, to develop some other principles to determine what is fair and unfair, morally and immoral, humane and inhumanly.
Simonov fought in the ranks of the army, the power of which was inseparable from its moral and political unity. And therefore the emphasis in his prose of military time - it is on this unity. Of course, at that time, Simonov's images of officers who cause criticism and condemnation were visible. In the story "Days and Nights" such a tendency received the most vivid expression.
The artistic growth of Simonov-Prosaika was founded on a serious development of the traditions of Russian realism. His military prose K. Simonov from the very beginning oriented on L.N. Tolstoy, well understanding all the audacity of such a plan. A. Makarov fairly seen that Simonov develops in their work the Tolstov ideas about the nature of the Russian warrior. He wrote: "Working on the novel about the army, putting himself a task of realistic show of the Russian military nature, Simonov naturally stood on the path specified by L. Tolstoy" Makarov A. Serious Life. - M., 1962. - p.384 ..
I. Vishnevskaya Following A. Makarov, the development of Tolstsky ideas about the most typical behavior in the Russian man's war. At the same time, she notices an extremely important circumstance: "With a Tolstovsky Trend, another thought of the story" Days and Nights "is connected: the people in the face of death stopped thinking as they look and what they seem to be There was no time or desire. So from the real, everyday war, her explosions, deaths and fires simonov moves to its moral outcome ... "Vishnevskaya I. Konstantin Simonov. - M., 1966 - P.99 ..
In the letters Simonov, there is one very important self-esteem - he refers herself to those literators who are quite consciously seeking to "write a war of truthfully and everyday life, as a great and terrible work." Simonov studied at L.N. Tolstoy main - principles of the image of war and man in war.
Tolstoy teaches Simonov not to judge a person, based on how it seems, and especially how he wants to seem. He taught to detect the domestic advantages of the Russian soldier under any appearance, taught to penetrate his mental complexity, to the hidden promotion of his actions. Tolstoy teaches Simonov to check the value of man by his behavior in the most dramatic situation - in the face of death. I am convinced that not only from life impressions, but also from Tolstoy came to Simonov philosophical issues, expressed by him later in the meaningfulness of the title "Live and Dead".
However, it is indisputable that the new type of war, the new nature of intra-warring relations corrected the Tolstov traditions and suggested simonov life-affirming, by the advantage of the positive direction of its artistic searches. KM himself Simonov in the story "Infantry" so determines its view on the image of the war: "In war, they talk about the war in different ways, sometimes worrying, sometimes coming to rage. But most often, the experienced people talk about the most incredible as Talenko, calmly, for sure, dry, as if leading the protocol. " The logging is incredible - so often you can define the stylistics of the Simon prose, and its psychological origins are perfectly explained by the phrase of the same reasoning about Kombat Talenko: "This means that they have long thought and decided and set themselves the only and simple goal - to kill the enemy."
Talking about people, faithful one-sole purpose, and therefore clear, strong and solid, KM Simons sometimes borrowed their principles of narration, expressing the conviction and strength of the Spirit. So the artistic unity arises, which may not always be achieved by Simonov, but in the "Infantrymen" was successfully implemented.
The story "Infantry" seemed to simonov one of the most difficult in their work, but this is undoubtedly one of its best military stories in the depths of psychologism, according to the strength of the shape. Finally, in this story, printed in the "Red Star" at the end of the war, September 25, 1944, we meet with a convincing artistic statement of a soldier's humanism, one of the deepest moral and philosophical conclusions K. Simonov. And most likely - the most important for Simonov, and for all people of his generation at that severe wartime.
All the main features of the Simon style stylist as a prose is best manifested themselves in the story "Days and Nights". In this work, the inseparalism of personal and social, private and common destinies is discharged with all thoroughness. Saburov, fighting and getting victory, at the same time mining happiness for Ani. Sometimes in the fear of the battle, he even had no time to think about her, but it is only worth getting the opportunity to distract from his military affairs at least for some time, as a thought of Anya and a conscious thirst for happiness become for Saburov, the purpose of life, inseparable from the main thing - from victory, from Motherland.
The desire for versatility, the capacitance of the image leads to the fact that in the story, the constraint is organically combined with direct emotional estimates of events and heroes. Author's lyricism is often invaded in the meditation of Saburov. So, for example, in the middle of the description of one of the combat episodes, you can read: "He did not know what happened south and north, although, judging by the Cannonade, there was a battle everywhere, - but one thing he firmly knew and still felt: these three houses , broken windows, broken apartments, he, his soldiers, killed and lively, woman with three children in the basement - all this together was taken by Russia, and he, Saburov, defended her. "
Here, it seems, for the first time, the thought of the unity of the "living and the dead", which was destined to become the main thing in the work of Simonov for the first time in decades.
Exceived, almost the poetic intonation of such lines reminds that Simonov was originally intended to write a poem about Stalingrad defenders, and then left his thought and turned to prose. And he really managed, keeping his excited attitude towards the topic, to create a story that is fairly estimated as one of the first analytical works of war. But the analysis of human characters did not prevent a direct emotional and even campaign influence, which at that time Simonov was convinced of the main task of literature. Simonova's story, undoubtedly, one of those works of the war years, which managed to take part in the Great Patriotic War, were a powerful means of patriotic enthusiasm, fiercely fought for victory.
In 1966, in the preface to the collection of writings, Konstantin Simonov wrote: "I still have been and continuing to remain a military writer, and my duty to warn the reader in advance that, opening any of the six volumes, he will again and again meet with the war" quota. By: words that came from the battle. Articles, dialogues. Letters. Vol.2 / Sost. A.G. Kogan- M.: Book, 1985. - p.85.
K. Simonov did a lot in order to tell the world about the worldview and the nature of the moral appearance and the heroic life of the Soviet warrior, which defeated fascism.
For a generation to which Simonov belongs, a central event that determined his fate, a worldview, moral appearance, the nature and intensity of emotions was the Great Patriotic War. Lyrics K. Simonov was the voice of this generation, the prose K. Simonov - his self-consciousness, reflection of his historical role.
K. Simonov so understood the importance of literature in those years: "... to write about the war is difficult. Write about it as soon as something is paradane, a solemn and easy business, it is impossible. It will be a lie. Write only about hard days and nights, only about the dirt of the trenches and the cold of snowdrifts, only death and blood - it also means to lie, for all this is, but it is only about it - it means to forget about the soul, about the heart of a person fighting on this War. " Simonov K. Soldier's heart // Literature and art, April 15, 1942.
Simons persistently sought to reveal the heroism of the soldier without any embodents and exaggerations, in all its great dope. Therefore, it is so complex in its works the structure of conflicts, invariably includes in addition to the basic antagonistic collision with fascism and the widely branched sphere of conflicts of internal, moral, ideological. Therefore, it is so obviously increasing in him to become a tragic writer. The tragic acts as the most faithful, sensitive and powerful tool for checking a person, the understanding of its value and the approval of the greatness of his spirit. The artistic prose K. Simonov gave evidence of the continuity of the tragic and heroic, as it confirmed that the heroic characters in all their truth and strength act in tragic circumstances. The victory over the circumstances requires the awareness of the actions, personal conviction in their necessity, an irresistible will to their accomplishment. An image of a heroic nature is therefore unthinkable outside the psychologist, or, more precisely, using the term A. Bocharov, outside of psychological drama, as a combination of the severity of military events and caused by these events of tense mental dramas.
Simonov said quite clearly that the Soviet people were prepared for the heroism of the military years their previous life experience: difficulty in the years of the first five-year plan, devotion to the motherland. Consequently, Konstantin Simonov fully investigated the socio-moral origins of the feat, and turned to this problem one of the first. Such deep penetration into the spiritual life of the hero becomes possible because K. Simonon is close to the life of the heroes, which for him and the heroes of time, people who solved the historical destiny of all mankind.
A deep, multilateral connection with life and gave the opportunity to Simonov to create works that were the vertices of domestic literature about the war and clearly express all its main trends.
Simonov Konstantin (real name - Cyril) Mikhailovich (1915-1979) - Poet, Prose, playwright.
Born on November 15 (28) in Petrograd, was raised by a stepfather - a teacher of the Military School. Children's years passed in Ryazan and Saratov.
After graduating from 1930, the seven-year-old I in Saratov, went to Fab. Duty to study on Tokary. In 1931, the family moved to Moscow, and Simonov, after graduating here, Fab. Causes of accurate mechanics, went to work for the plant. At the same years began to write poems. He worked at the factory until 1935.
In 1936, the first poems K. Simonov were printed in Journals "Young Guard" and "October". Having finished the literary institute. M. Gorky in 1938, Simonov entered the graduate school of the IFLI (Institute of History, Philosophy, Literature), but in 1939 he was sent as a military correspondent to Halkin-goal in Mongolia and the Institute was no longer returned.
In 1940 he wrote his first play "The Story of One Love", set on the stage of the theater. Leninsky Komsomol; In 1941 - the second - "guy from our city."
During the year he studied at the courses of military correspondents at the Military Political Academy, received the military rank of the internal rank.
With the beginning of the war, the army was called into the army, he worked in the newspaper "Combat Banner". In 1942 he was awarded the title of senior battalion commissioner, in 1943 - the title of lieutenant colonel, and after the war - Colonel. Most of his military correspondence was published in the "Red Star". During the war years, the play "Russian people", "so it will be", the story "Days and Nights", two books of poems "with you and without you" and "War"; Were fame received his lyrical poem "Wait for me ...".
As a military correspondent, visited all the fronts, passed on the lands of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany, was a witness to the last fighting for Berlin. After the war, his collections of essays appeared: "Letters from Czechoslovakia", "Slavic friendship", "Yugoslav Notebook", "from black to the Barents Sea. Note of the military correspondent."
After the war for three years, Simonov stayed in numerous foreign business trips (Japan, USA, China).
From 1958 to 1960 he lived in Tashkent as a Pravda correspondent for the republics of Central Asia.
The first novel "Comrades in Arms" saw the light in 1952, then the first book of the trilogy "Live and Dead" (1959). In 1961 the theater "Contemporary" put the play Simonova "Fourth". In 1963, the second book of the trilogy appeared - the novel "soldiers are not born." (In 19 / 0- 3rd book "Last Summer".)
According to Simonov scenarios, films were delivered: "Guy from our city" (1942), "Wait for me" (1943), "Days and Nights" (1943), "Immortal Garniszon" (1956), "Normandy-Neman" (1960, Together with Sh.Pakakomi, E.Tril), "Live and Dead" (1964).
In the post-war years, Simonov's social activity was in such a way: from 1946 to 1950 and from 1954 to 1958, he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine "New World"; From 1954 to 1958, he was the chief editor of the magazine "New World"; From 1950 to 1953 - the chief editor of the "literary newspaper"; From 1946 to 1959 and from 1967 to 1979 - Secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
K. Simonov died in 1979 in Moscow.
