Vladilen Mashkovtsev

Vladilen Ivanovich Mashkovtsev
Vladilen Ivanovich Mashkovtsev
	Vladilen Mashkovtsev (portrait from the book "Magnitnaya gora" (1986))
Native name	Владилен Иванович Машковцев
Born	26 September 1929; Tyumen, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union; (now Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation)
Died	24 April 1997 (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.^[1]

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.