28 November [O.S. 15 November] 1915 in Petrograd - August 28, 1979 in Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian author. His full name was Konstantin (born Kirill) Mikhailovich Simonov. He was a well-known war poet who wrote a popular poem called "Wait for me", about a soldier in the war asking his beloved to wait for his return. The poem was addressed to his wife, the actress Valentina Serova. It was immensely popular at the time and remains one of the best-known poems in the Russian language. Simonov wrote many more poems to Valentina, subsequently included in the collection With you and without you.

He spent a year on the course for war correspondents in the military-political academy, and obtained the service rank of quartermaster of the second rank. At the beginning of the war he was posted into the army, where he worked on the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda"[Red Star]. In 1942 he became a senior battalion commissar, in 1943 - lieutenant Colonel, and after the war - colonel. Most of his war reports were published in Red Star. During the war years, he wrote the plays Russian people, Wait for me, So it will be, the short novel Days and Nights and two books of poems With you and without you and War. As a war correspondent he spent time on all the fronts; he served in Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Germany and was present at the Battle of Berlin. His collected reports appeared after the War: Letters from Czechoslovakia, Slav friendship, Yugoslavian notebook and From the Black to the Barents sea. Notes of a war correspondent.