Born on August 16, 1925 in the village of Duplevo (Novgorod province).
In 1927, together with his family, he moved to Leningrad, father and mother parted.
From September 16 to November 6, 1941, Radiy worked as a mechanic in auto repair shops of the North-West Federal District.
In 1942 he was evacuated from Leningrad, where he survived the first blockade winter, to the Perm region. He worked as an installer and fireman in an orphanage.
After graduating from the infantry school, Pogodin was sent to the active army. Participated in the liberation of the left bank of the Ukrainian SSR, crossed the Dnieper, was wounded. After the hospital he was sent to the 33rd brigade Радий Погодин Radiy Petrovich Pogodin - Russian Soviet writer and screenwriter.
Born on August 16, 1925 in the village of Duplevo (Novgorod province).
In 1927, together with his family, he moved to Leningrad, father and mother parted.
From September 16 to November 6, 1941, Radiy worked as a mechanic in auto repair shops of the North-West Federal District.
In 1942 he was evacuated from Leningrad, where he survived the first blockade winter, to the Perm region. He worked as an installer and fireman in an orphanage.
After graduating from the infantry school, Pogodin was sent to the active army. Participated in the liberation of the left bank of the Ukrainian SSR, crossed the Dnieper, was wounded. After the hospital he was sent to the 33rd brigade of the 9th corps of the 2nd Guards Tank Army for reconnaissance. He took part in battles near Iasi, liberated Lublin, Warsaw, took Berlin. In 1945 he was transferred to the reserve with the rank of sergeant.
He studied at the preparatory courses at the Leningrad State Institute named after G.V. Plekhanov. In 1946 he began to work in the fire department in Moscow. Began to publish in the departmental large-circulation "Battle Signal". During the discussion in the edition of the Resolution of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks "On the magazines" Zvezda "and" Leningrad "", he defended M. M. Zoshchenko and A. A. Akhmatova, after which in 1946-1947 he was hiding , then returned to Leningrad to his father. Got a job, was arrested and convicted under Article 58-10, "anti-Soviet propaganda." After serving his sentence (1948-1950), he returned to Leningrad, in 1953 he moved to Yoshkar-Ola and began working on the radio.
In 1954 he returned to Leningrad again. In the almanac "Friendship" published his first story: "Frost", and in 1957 published the first book of the writer "Ant Oil". In 1959, Radiy Petrovich Pogodin was admitted to the USSR JV.
His stories for children were widely known, the story "Who Warmed the Sea" presented the USSR (along with the stories of V.K.Zheleznikov, O. Donchenko, M. Mrevlishvili, J. Rannap, H. Nazir) in the Peace ”(1962), prepared by an international editorial board (published in the USSR in 1965).
He died on March 30, 1993. Buried in St. Petersburg at the Volkovskoye cemetery....more