Balin Alexander Ivanovich

Genus. 02/27/1890 in Tomsk; Russian; Higher education – graduated from the Faculty of Law of Kazan University. He worked in cooperatives, financial institutions and newspapers in Altai and the Far East. Since 1923 - in Irkutsk. Published in the magazines “Future Siberia”, “Red Dawns”, “Siberian Lights”, “Siberian Dawn”, collective collections and almanacs - “New Siberia”, “Pereplav”, “Pribaikalye”, “Peers”, “Rapid Years”, “Coniferous Wind”, in the newspapers of Barnaul, Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Kazan, Tomsk, led the literary association at the Irkutsk plant named after. V. Kuibysheva. In 1934, the first book of poems, “The Shore,” was published. Member of the USSR SP. Arrested on April 29, 1937, charged under Art. 58-10, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. He died on October 6, 1937 in a prison hospital from pulmonary tuberculosis. Rehabilitated by the KGB CM of the USSR in the Irkutsk region. 10/17/1956.