Pyotr Tur was born on January 24, 1908 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for
Vstrecha na Elbe (1949),
Posol Sovetskogo Soyuza (1970) and
Bespokoynoe khozyaystvo (1946). He died on October 2, 1978 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].