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Viktor Suvorov
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Soviet and Russian writer
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Viktor Suvorov is a male historian, novelist, writer, and army scout born Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun on April 20, 1947, in Barabash. He holds citizenship in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. His native languages are Russian and Ukrainian, and he speaks English and German. He began his work period in 1981 and writes primarily in Russian.
Suvorov is a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was educated at the Military Diplomatic Academy of Moscow. His notable works include *Aquarium* and *Icebreaker*. Other titles associated with him are *Żołnierze wolności*, *Kontrola*, and *Stalins verhinderter Erstschlag. Hitler erstickt die Weltrevolution*. He writes in the genre of opinion journalism.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 20 Apr 1947
- Works
- 62
Top works
- Żołnierze wolności
- Akwarium
- Kontrola
- Akvarium
- Stalins verhinderter Erstschlag. Hitler erstickt die Weltrevolution
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Key facts
- Native name
- Владимир Богданович Резун Виктор Суворов
- Born
- Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun , ( 1947-04-20 ) 20 April 1947 (age 79) , Barabash , Primorsky Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR
- Notable works
- Aquarium , Icebreaker
- Spouse
- Tatiana Korzh
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Viktor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Barabash
- Occupation
- military historian
- Educated at
- Military Diplomatic Academy of Moscow
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Ukrainian
- Genre
- opinion journalism
- Official website
- suvorov.com
- Image
- Suworow Wiktor.jpg
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- Commons category
- Viktor Suvorov
- date of birth
- 1947-04-00
- birth name
- Владимир Богданович Резун
- pseudonym
- Віктор Суворов
- name in native language
- Виктор Суворов
- writing language
- Russian
- start of work period
- 1981-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun (Russian: Владимир Богданович Резун; Ukrainian: Володи́мир Богда́нович Рєзу́н; born 20 April 1947), known by his pseudonym of Viktor Suvorov (Виктор Суворов), is a former Soviet GRU officer who is the author of non-fiction books about World War II, the GRU and the Soviet Army, as well as fictional books about the same and related subjects.
After defecting to the United Kingdom in 1978, Suvorov began his writing career, publishing his first books in the 1980s about his own experiences and the structure of the Soviet military, intelligence, and secret police. He writes in Russian with a number of his books translated into English, including his semi-autobiographical The Liberators (1981). In the USSR, according to Suvorov and according to an interview with the former head of the GRU, he was sentenced to death in absentia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viktor Suvorov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.