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Stepan Petrovich Shchipachyov
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Stepan Petrovich Shchipachyov — a Russian Soviet poet and prose writer, editor, and educator. Laureate of two Stalin Prizes (1949, 1951). He was born in the village of Shchipachi, now located in the Kamyshlovsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Stepan was the youngest child in a poor peasant family.
In his youth he worked as a clerk in a bookstore in Kamyshlov. Shortly before the October Revolution he was conscripted into the army. He served in the ranks of Kolchak's forces, but soon transferred to the Chapayev Division and joined the Bolshevik Party. Shchipachyov received further education at a military-pedagogical school and at the Institute of the Red Professorship.
For ten years Shchipachyov taught history at military schools. In the mid-1930s he left teaching and devoted himself entirely to literature: he moved to Moscow, where he worked in the editorial offices of Moscow magazines. His creative path is marked by numerous publications, the first of which was the book of poems "Along the Mounds of the Ages", published in Crimea in 1923. The poet himself considered the beginning of his literary career to be the publication of the book "Lyric" in Moscow in 1939. Stepan Petrovich Shchipachyov died on January 1, 1980, and was buried at the Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow.
Date of birth
07 January 1899
Date of death
01 January 1980
Occupation
Poet