Yevgeny Petrov (writer)
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Biography
Petrov was the son of a schoolteacher; [2] at the age of 20 he moved to Moscow and became a writer at Gudok, the railway workers’ newspaper, where he met Ilya Ilf.
In 1935, the two writers travelled to the USA, and spent two months driving from New York to California; they published the story of their travels as Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (One-Storied America).[3]
Following Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, Petrov became a war correspondent. He was killed in a plane crash while returning from besieged Sevastopol. The short film Envelope was dedicated to him.[4]
He was the brother of Valentin Kataev.[5]
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