Vladilen Mashkovtsev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Mashkovtsev.

Vladilen Ivanovich Mashkovtsev
Vladilen Mashkovtsev (portrait from the book "Magnitnaya gora" (1986))
Native name	Владилен Иванович Машковцев
Born	(1929-09-26)26 September 1929 Tyumen, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation)
Died	24 April 1997(1997-04-24) (aged 67) Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Resting place	Magnitogorsk
Citizenship	Soviet Union Russia
Notable awards	Several others (see below)

Vladilen Ivanovich Mashkovtsev (Russian: Владилен Иванович Машковцев) (September 26, 1929 – April 24, 1997) was a Russian poet, writer and journalist. He wrote 15 books published in the Urals and in Moscow.

Biography

Vladilen Mashkovtsev was born on September 26, 1929 in Tyumen, Ural Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (now Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation). His father worked as a people's judge.

During the Great Patriotic War, Mashkovtsev studied at the Kurgan Aviation School of Pilots.

In 1947, he arrived in Magnitogorsk, worked as a toolmaker at the repair and mechanical plant of the trust "Magnitostroi".

Mashkovtsev's first publications in the Magnitogorsk press were in 1955. In 1960, his first book of poetry was published in the Chelyabinsk Book Publishing House.

In 1967 he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

He died on April 24, 1997 in Magnitogorsk.

Bibliography

Novels

• Zolotoy tsvetok — odolen / Gold Flower Odolen
• Vremya krasnogo drakona / The Red Dragon's Time

Poems

• Litsom k ognyu / With Face To Fire
• Razdum'ye г mavzoleya / Thoughts At The Mausoleum

Poetical cycles

• Alye lebedi / Red Swans
• Kazatskie gusli / Kazak's Gusli
• Krasnoye smescheniye / Red Shift
• Lyubov' trevozhnaya / Worried Love
• Magnitka — sud'ba moya / Magnitka, My Destiny
• Molodost' / Youth
• Oranzhevaya magiya / Orange Magic
• Protivorechiya serdtsa / Heart's Contradictions
• Samotsvety / Gems
• Chudo v kovshe / Magic In The Scoop

Honours and awards

• Medal "Veteran of Labour"
• Honorary citizen of Magnitogorsk (1996)

External links

• Vladilen Mashkovtsev's works at the Maksim Moshkow's Library