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Alexey Petrovich Bondin
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Alexey Petrovich Bondin was a Ural writer and playwright who lived in the city of Nizhny Tagil (Sverdlovsk Oblast). One of the pioneers of Soviet literature in the Urals. He was born in Nizhny Tagil into the family of a dam master and was orphaned early. After finishing elementary school he worked as a messenger and as a locksmith at the Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant and the Sormovo Shipyard. He was dismissed for taking part in the May Day demonstration in 1902. Until 1908 he frequently changed jobs and places of residence, after which he took a position at the locomotive depot in Nizhny Tagil.
Bondin began writing while working at the Sormovo plant, but devoted himself seriously to literature after the Revolution. He began with plays but became known as a prose writer. His first significant publication was the play "Enemies" (1924). Subsequently Bondin wrote the novellas "The Departing", "Matvey Korenistov", "Svyazchiki" and the short stories "The Payroll Clerk", "The Switchman". From the late 1920s Bondin was one of the leaders of UralAPP, and from 1934 he was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers of the USSR.
Among Bondin's major works are the autobiographical novella "My Life" (1934), the novels "Loga" (1933) and "Olga Yermolayeva" (1940). The writer died in 1939 and is buried in Nizhny Tagil in a park later named after him. In 1947 a monument was erected on his grave. In 1953 a memorial literary museum dedicated to Bondin opened in Nizhny Tagil.
Date of birth
05 August 1882
Date of death
07 November 1939
Occupation
Writer