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Vasily Dmitrievich Fyodorov
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Vasily Dmitrievich Fyodorov was a Russian Soviet writer and poet, and a technologist. He spent his childhood and youth in the village of Maryevka in the Yaysky District of Kemerovo Oblast. In 1938, after graduating from an aviation technical school, he began working as a technologist at an aircraft factory in Irkutsk. Until 1947 he worked at aviation factories in Siberia, where he held positions of technologist, foreman, and senior foreman. It was during this time that he began writing poetry.
In 1943 Fyodorov made his literary debut in the journal 'Sibirskie Ogni' (Siberian Lights). In 1947 his first book of poems, 'Lyric Trilogy', was published in Novosibirsk. In 1950 Fyodorov graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. He is the author of the books: 'Forest Springs' (1955), 'White Grove' (1958), 'Not to the Left of the Heart' (1960), 'Lyric' (1961), 'Seventh Heaven' (1962), 'Second Fire' (1965), 'Third Roosters' (1966), 'Like Flowers at Dawn' (1974), and others.
From the 1960s to the 1980s Fyodorov participated in the leadership of the journal 'Molodaya Gvardiya' (Young Guard) and was a member of the editorial boards of the publishing houses 'Khudozhestvennaya Literatura' (Artistic Literature), 'Sovremennik' (The Contemporary), and 'Sovetskaya Rossiya' (Soviet Russia). Vasily Dmitrievich Fyodorov died of a heart attack on April 19, 1984, in a sanatorium in the city of Essentuki, on the third day after beginning treatment. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo Cemetery.
Date of birth
23 February 1918
Date of death
19 April 1984
Occupation
Writer