For three years after the war ended, Simonov served in foreign missions in Japan, the United States and China. From 1958 to 1960 he worked in Tashkent as the Central Asia correspondent for Pravda. His novel "Comrades in Arms" was published in 1952, and his longer novel, "The Living and the Dead", in 1959. In 1961 his play, "The Fourth," was performed at the Sovremennik Theatre. In 1963–64 he wrote the novel "Soldatami ne rozhdaiutsia", which can be translated as "Soldiers Are Made, Not Born" or "One Isn't Born a Soldier." In 1970–71 he wrote a sequel "The Last Summer".