Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya, was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children, he was born in the Tula what, an administrative division of a country?
Zoya Voskresenskaya Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya (Russian: Зоя Ивановна Воскресенская ; in marriage – Rybkina, Рыбкина; April 28 [o.s. 15], 1907, Uzlovaya, Tula Governorate, – January 8, 1992, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children. A USSR State Prize laureate (1968), Voskresenskaya was best known for her novels "Skvoz Ledyanuyu Mglu" (Through Icy Haze, 1962) and "Serdtse Materi" (A Mother's Heart, 1965). In 1962-1980 more than 21 million of her books were sold in the USSR.
Amur Oblast Amur Oblast (Russian: Аму́рская о́бласть , "Amurskaya oblast"; ] ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative center of the oblast, the city of Blagoveshchensk, is one of the oldest settlements in the Russian Far East, founded in 1856. It is a traditional center of trade and gold mining. The territory is accessed by two railways: the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal–Amur Mainline. As of the 2010 Census, the oblast's population was 830,103.