Semyon Babayevsky

{{Short description|Soviet writer (1909–2000)}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Semyon Babayevsky

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|06|6}}

| birth_place = Kunye, Izyumsky Uyezd, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|03|28|1909|06|6}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russian Federation

| period = 1935-1980s

| genre = Fiction (Socialist Realism)

| subject = Collectivization

| notableworks = The Golden Star Chavalier (1947-1948)

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| awards = Stalin Prize (1949, 1950, 1951)

| birth_name = Semyon Petrovich Babayevsky

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Semyon Petrovich Babayevsky ({{langx|ru|Семён Петро́вич Бабае́вский}}, June 6, 1909, Kunye, Izyumsky Uyezd, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire - March 28, 2000, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet writer, three times Stalin Prize laureate, best known for his novel The Golden Star Chavalier (1947-1948) and the second part of it, Light Above the Land (1949-1950).{{cite web | author = | date = | url = http://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/literatura/BABAEVSKI_SEMEN_PETROVICH.html|title = Semyon Petrovich Babayevsky| publisher = www.krugosvet.ru| accessdate = 2012-12-01}}