Sudba Cheloveka) is a short story written by Soviet Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov in 1956.

[1] With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the truck driver Andrey Sokolov has to leave for army and part with his family.

In a short vacation in his hometown, Sokolov finds out that his beloved wife Irina and both of their daughters were killed during the bombing.

After the war, lonely Andrei Sokolov doesn't return to his town and works somewhere else.

Ten years later, after reading some short stories by Hemingway and Remarque, Sholokhov wrote "The Fate of a Man" in seven days.