Dmitry Nesterovich Aprosimov

Dmitry Nesterovich Aprosimov was an Evenki poet, writer, artist, prose author and folklorist. He was born on March 10, 1929, in the Kyupsky nasleg of the Ust-Maysky ulus. His father was a well-known collective farmer, and his mother, a native of Churapchi, died in 1939. Of eleven children in the family only three survived – Yegor, Dmitry, Ekaterina.

In 1951 Aprosimov enrolled in the Music and Art College in the painting department. He actively participated in the literary circle led by Semyon Danilov, the future people's poet of Yakutia. His first poems were published in the district newspaper of Verkhnevilyuysk, where he met and befriended writers such as Semyon Rufov, Pyotr Toburokov, Nikolay Gabyshev and Vasily Golderov. His professional literary activity began in 1957.

Aprosimov worked as a drawing and drafting teacher and as head of a library and club in the Verkhnevilyuysk and Ust-Maysky districts. Burdened with a large family and suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, he did not interrupt his creative work: he wrote poems, essays, and tales. He published several collections of poetry and prose in the Yakut language, as well as a book of poems with the Moscow publisher Sovremennik. Dmitry Nesterovich Aprosimov passed away on January 29, 1983.