Vera Mikhailova

Vera Grigorovna Mikhailova (; 4 September 1907 – 30 May 1985) was a Soviet children's writer and journalist.

Early life and education Vera Grigorovna Mikhailova was born on 4 September 1907, in Nerchinsk prison in Nerchinsk (Transbaikal), Russian Empire. According to other sources, she was born on August 22, 1908, in Mariinsk (now Kemerovo Oblast).

She worked at a factory from the age of 12. At the age of 14 she joined the Komsomol in Chita and was sent to work in the newly created Komsomol newspaper Yunaya Rat. She graduated in 1941 from the , then studied for three years at the Crimean Pedagogical Institute in Simferopol. She headed the prose section of the Crimean branch of the Union of Soviet Writers.

She wrote in Russian. Most of her works were written for children. Mikhailova is the author of the collections of short stories "Vorobeich" (1956), "Signal" (1958) and "How Dimka Became Bimkoy" (1963), the stories "Alay Lenta" (1960), "Zhil v Uzine malchishka" (1967, about the childhood of cosmonaut Pavel Popovich ), "Goshka - Partisan Son" (1971). All her books were published in Simferopol. The story "Goshka - Partisan Son" was translated into Tajik.

She died on May 30, 1985 in Simferopol, Crimean Oblast, USSR (now Autonomous Republic of Crimea).

Works about the childhood of Ukrainian cosmonaut Pavel Popovich