Vsevolod Ovchinnikov
1926–2021 (age 95)
Biography
Vsevolod Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Все́волод Влади́мирович Овчи́нников; November 17, 1926 – August 30, 2021) was a Soviet and Russian journalist and writer-publicist, one of the leading Soviet postwar international journalists; orientalist and expert on Japan and China.
Ovchinnikov was born in Leningrad. For nearly forty years he was a correspondent and political columnist for Pravda, and was a columnist in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Author of books A Branch of Sakura (The Story of What Kind of People the Japanese) (1970), Roots of Oak (Impressions and Thoughts about England and the English) (1980), Hot Ashes (Chronicle of a Secret Race for the Possession of Nuclear Weapons). For these books in 1985 he was awarded the USSR State Prize.
He was an honorary member of the Russian-Japanese Committee of the 21st century, the political expert peer network Kremlin.org.
From 1953 to 1960 he worked as a special correspondent of Pravda in China, from 1962 to 1968 - in Japan, from 1974 to 1978 - in the UK.
In addition, there are short-term missions in the United States, Nicaragua, Mexico, Indonesia, and India. Reports from these countries are united in the book The Element of Race.