Georgy Mokeevich Markov (Гео́ргий Моке́евич Ма́рков)— was a Soviet/Russian writer and playwright, journalist, war correspondent. Chairman of the Board of the Writers' Union of the USSR (1986-1989), before the first secretary of the board (1971-1986).
Twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1974 and 1984). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1976), the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1952), the State Prize of the RSFSR named after I. br. Vasilievs (1984) and the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1980). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1946.