Ivan Petrovich Shamyakin
1/30/1921 - 10/14/2004
Novel " Heart in the palm of your hand» (1964)
Stories "the Merchant and the poet" and " Wedding night» (1976)
Novel " I'll Take your pain» (1979)
The novel "the Grand Duchess» (1997)
The story of "woodland Madonna» (1998)
1936
School, technical school
He graduated from seven classes of the Makov school and continued his studies at the Gomel technical school of building materials. After graduating from the technical school, he worked as a technical technologist at a brick factory in Bialystok. While still at the technical school, he began writing poetry and participated in meetings of the literary Association of the newspaper "Gomel truth".
19361940
War
He was drafted into the red army, served in Murmansk in the anti-aircraft artillery unit, in 1944 was relocated to Poland, took part in the Vistula-Oder operation and in the Berlin offensive as part of the searchlight company 16.04.1945. During the great Patriotic war, the commander of the gun crew, Komsomol division.
19401949
First novel
During the day, working at school, in the evenings, he held seminars for agitators on the farm. He collected material for a novel about Belarusian partisans called "Deep current".
19491948—1950
Work in culture
He worked as a senior editor of the Belarusian state publishing house, chief editor of the almanac "Soviet Motherland". Since 1954, he worked for many years as Deputy Chairman of the Board of the BSSR Writers ' Union.
1948—19501980—1992
Work
Editor-in-chief of the Belarusian Soviet encyclopedia publishing house.
1980—1992October 14, 2004
Death
He is buried in the Eastern cemetery.
October 14, 2004