Alexey Surkov

Soviet poet and critic (1899-1983)

Alexey Alexandrovich Surkov (Russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Сурко́в; October 13, 1899 – June 14, 1983) was a Russian Soviet poet, editor, literary critic and high-profile nomenklatura figure, the head of the Soviet Union of Writers in 1953–1959, notorious for his role in the persecution of Boris Pasternak.