Avtonomov Vladimir Mikhailovich
Poet
Born in 1917 in the village of Ust-Medveditskaya (now the town of Serafimovich, Volgograd region) in a family of teachers, in childhood lived in Mariupol and Berdyansk, then in Donbass; studied for 3 years at the philological faculty of the Lugansk and Nikolaev pedagogical institutes, but did not graduate. In 1937 he was repressed, spent 10 years in camps in the Far East and the Far North. After his release, he worked in a topographic detachment at large railway construction sites, as a rate setter, economist, as a civilian - administrator and head of the literary section of the theater of Construction Directorate 501. In 1949 he moved to the Volga, to the town of Bor, Gorky region. He worked as an engineer at a logging enterprise, then as the chairman of the city planning department of the Bor City Executive Committee. In October 1958 he was accepted as a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. From 1959 to 1961 he studied in Moscow at the Higher Literary Courses at the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute. From 1961 he worked as an editor at the Gorky Book Publishing House, then until 1967 he was in party work. He died in 1972. He was buried in Nizhny Novgorod.
Documents (1)
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Шерешевский Лазарь Вениаминович
1. Article by L.V. Shereshevsky "My literary institutes or five silhouettes behind barbed wire", published in the newspaper "Book Review" No. 5 from 03.02.1989, with an excerpt from his book of memoirs.
