Iosif Pavlovich Utkin (
Иосиф Павлович Уткин; – 13 November 1944) was a
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n poet from the
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generation like
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and
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.
He was born on 13 May at the station of
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of Chinese Eastern Railway, which his parents were helping to construct. After the birth of the son the family returned to their native city
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, where the future poet lived until 1920. He studied in the three-year primary school, then in the four-year middle school, from the last class of which he was excluded for the poor behavior and the free-thinking.
Iosif Pavlovich Utkin (
Иосиф Павлович Уткин; – 13 November 1944) was a
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n poet from the
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
generation like
Pavel KoganPavel Davidovich Kogan was a Soviet poet.-Biography:Though born in Kiev, Pavel and his family moved to Moscow in 1922. He studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and at the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature.Kogan twice hiked the trails of central Russia...
and
Semyon GudzenkoSemyon Gudzenko who was a Soviet poet, of the World War II generation. He is often compared with Pavel Kogan and Semen Kirsanov....
.
He was born on 13 May at the station of
KhinganKhingan may refer to:*Greater Khingan, volcanic mountain range in Inner Mongolia, China*Lesser Khingan, mountain range in the northeastern section of Heilongjiang, China...
of Chinese Eastern Railway, which his parents were helping to construct. After the birth of the son the family returned to their native city
IrkutskIrkutsk is one of the largest cities in Siberia and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from Moscow. Population: -History:...
, where the future poet lived until 1920. He studied in the three-year primary school, then in the four-year middle school, from the last class of which he was excluded for the poor behavior and the free-thinking. He had to work; so he worked as a marker at a tannery, was selling newspapers, delivered telegrams. In 1919 during the anti-
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uprising in
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he became a member of the
Workers Guard (Communist
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) until the re-establishment of the Soviet power. In 1920 he enlisted as a volunteer with the first group of Irkutsk
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members for the
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. In the army he was a field informant, military commissar of march companies, military commissar of repair shops.
In 1922 he worked as a reporter for the newspaper "Power to Labor", then for the Provincial Committee of
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: a secretary of Komsomol newspaper, political instructor for pre-induction trainees. In 1924 he was sent to study im
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into the
Institute for Journalism. Since 1922 he had published his poems in the
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n press, and on the arrival to Moscow he was published in
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. In 1925 his first book '"Story about the Redhead Motele..."' ("Повесть о рыжем Мотэле...") was published, and in 1926 - his first book of poems. From 1925 he worked in
Komsomolskaya PravdaKomsomolskaya Pravda is a Russian tabloid newspaper. It was the All-Union newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol between 1925 and 1991...
. After graduating from his Institute in 1927, he was sent along with the poets Zharov and Bezymensky abroad, where stayed two months.
In 1928 he wrote and published poem
Dear Childhood. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he departs to front. Under
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, he was injured, and been treated in
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. There he Wrote the book
I saw it myself, verses from which he read to the editorial staff of
Komsomolskaya Pravda. In spite of the opinions of his physicians he returned to the front, although as a result of injury he were deprived of four fingers on the right hand. He participated in the combat, wrote song-marches. Many of his verses became songs, been popular at the front. Returning from the front on 13 November 1944, I.Utkin perished in the air crash.
External links
Iosif Utkin. Poems