Ivan Vavilin Biography

The family was peasant, so Little Vanya has learned a lot of work since childhood. Already at the age of 16, he worked far from his own house in the clearing forest room. He studied literacy in elementary school. At the age of 18 he entered the Posozdinsky school of collective farm youth then at the school was taught by the famous Komi poet Veniamin Chistelov.

I took courses to prepare for the institute. He served in the Red Army for two years. After the army, he worked in the editorial offices of republican and district newspapers. But the Great Patriotic War broke out. Ivan Mikhailovich Vavilin fought as part of the Guards mortar regiment per year. He was awarded combat medals. After the war, he returned to Syktyvkar. Ivan Mikhailovich devoted half a century to literary creativity.

Poetry fell in love with primary school. From the age of 14, he collaborated with district newspapers as a correspondent. Then, in the year, his first poem was published in the newspaper Komi Sikt. Ivan Vavilin recalled the beginning of his creative life: “Working in the forest, we lived in barracks. Winter evenings seemed to stretch endlessly. Somehow it was necessary to steal time.

So I was addicted to reading. Logaries listened to my reading with great interest. These evenings prompted me to try to write myself. " In the prewar years, the poet began to be constantly published in newspapers and magazines. And this was the beginning of professional creative activity. During the war, in the breaks between the battles, the poet wrote 31 poems about the courage of the soldiers, the great feat of the people.

In the post -war years, the main characters of his books became the workers of the village. The poet was brought by the poet's poem “Grandfather Taras” by Komi, the reader sincerely fell in love with the protagonist of the poem - the collective farm foreman of Santa Taras, and Ivan Vavilin became a truly folk poet. His works are distinguished by proximity to oral folk art, folklore, and in a later period they acquire the character of philosophical reflections on life.

In addition to lyrical poems, the author wrote satirical pamphlets, fables, soldier's essays. Created a poet and works for children. Together with the composer Prometheus, the poet wrote a libretto to the children's shuttlecock “Kysuk and Serko” Kison and Serko. Ivan Vavilin translated a lot. The works of A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, N. Nekrasov, S. Yesenin, A. Tvardovsky, P.

Ershov, R. Burns, G. Heine, Y. Kupala, V. Mayakovsky, S. Mikhalkov, M. Belong the greatest number of translations of poems by Taras Shevchenko. Thanks to Ivan Vavilin in Komi, the “The Tale of the Unknown Hero” Samuel Marshak, whose name, is our library, sounded in Komi. The poet died in the year.