Vadim Mikhailovich Kozhevnikov (Russian: Вадим Михайлович Кожевников; 22 April [O.S.

9 April] 1909, Togur – 20 October 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet writer and journalist.

Vadim Kozevnikov was born to a Russian family in the Siberian town of Togur, Tomsk Governorate, where his revolutionary-minded father, a physician, had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.

[1] Kozhevnikov studied literature and ethnology at Moscow State University, graduating in 1933.

A full-scale overview of Kozhevnikov's work, written by Soviet literary critic Iosif Grinberg, was published in Moscow in 1972.