Policeman, political worker, writer and public figure: on the biography of Sergei Ivanovich Veremey (1903–1991)

The article reconstructs the life path of the Soviet writer and public figure, policeman and participant in the Great Patriotic War Sergei Ivanovich Veremey by a set of unpublished sources identified by the author of the article in the funds of the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region and the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The anthropological approach to history and the biographical method are used as the methodological basis. The stages of the hero's biography are highlighted and the features of his adaptation to the social cataclysms of the 1910–1940s are analyzed. The contribution of Sergei Ivanovich Veremey to the culture of the Omsk region is assessed.