Nikolai Ivanovich Kazakov – a Mari Soviet poet, prose writer, translator, journalist, and editor. A classic of Mari fiction. He was born on January 15, 1918 in the village of Kutyuk-Kiner (now in Morkinsky District of the Republic of Mari El) into a peasant family. Like many of his peers, before starting school he drew his impressions of life from folk folklore and the oral stories of experienced people. He graduated from the Kozhlaer seven-year school in 1933. From 1934 to 1936 he worked in the editorial office of the pioneer newspaper 'Be Ready!', and from 1937 to 1939 he studied at the Mari Teachers' Institute. After graduating from the institute he was for some time a literary consultant at the Mari State Publishing House. His literary activity began already in his school years. His first poem, 'Lenin', was published in 1933. In 1938 his first poetry collection, 'Poems', was published.
From 1940 Kazakov served in the Red Army and took part in the Great Patriotic War. After demobilization in 1946 he worked as editor of the magazine 'Mari Almanac' and in the Union of Writers of the Mari ASSR. In 1955 he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. Kazakov created works for children and translated works of domestic and foreign authors into the Mari language. His own works were translated into many languages and published abroad — in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Italy, England, Finland and other countries. Nikolai Ivanovich Kazakov passed away in 1989 in Yoshkar-Ola.
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