Yegor Petrovich Neymokhov

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Yegor Petrovich Neymokhov – a Yakut Russian writer, People's Writer of Yakutia. He was born on March 30, 1950 in the village of Megino-Aldan. He graduated from Krest-Khalzhay Secondary School and the Faculty of History and Philology of Yakut State University. He began his professional activity in 1973. He worked as an editor in the Department for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press under the Council of Ministers of the Yakut ASSR, a lab assistant in the Sociology Laboratory of the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Yakut Branch of the Siberian Division of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and as a correspondent for the newspaper 'Eder Kommunist'.  

His literary debut took place in 1975 with the story 'Sergelleekhhe saasky kün' (A Spring Day in Sergelyakh), published in the newspaper 'Eder Kommunist'. From 1978 to 1985 he was head of a department, then deputy editor-in-chief of the literary and artistic magazine 'Khotugu Sulus'. From 1985 to 1989 he served as an instructor of the Yakut Regional Committee of the CPSU. From 1989 to 1991 he was editor-in-chief of the magazines published by the Yakut Regional Committee of the CPSU, 'Argys' and 'Aysberg'. In 1993 he was an associate professor in the Department of Yakut Literature at Yakut State University. From 1993 to 1996 he was the executive secretary of the Commission on State Awards under the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). From 1996 to 1999 he served as an adviser to the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in St. Petersburg. 

From 1999 to 2001 he was head of the letters department of the newspaper 'Sakha Sire'. From 2001 to 2008 he was the chief specialist at the Directorate for Road Construction of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Since 2006 he has been chairman of the board of the Union of Writers of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Some works: 'Khapsyhy' (The Struggle), 'Kötüü' (Ascent), 'Saysary küölge tübelte' (An Incident on Lake Saysary), 'Khahsyy' (Cry). Awards and honors: People's Writer of Yakutia, Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), laureate of the State Prize named after P. A. Oyunskiy, the Komsomol Prize of Yakutia, honorary citizen of Tomponsky Ulus. Yegor Petrovich Neymokhov died on June 25, 2011 in Yakutsk.