Nomtoev, Tsokto Nomtoevich

Tsokto Nomtoev was born in the Kuorka ulus (now Kizhinginsky district of Buryatia ) in the family of a cattle breeder on April 24, 1910. Early left an orphan, was a shepherd. At the age of 14, he went to elementary school and mastered its program in a year. In 1930, he graduated from a seven-year school and entered the Buryat-Mongolian Pedagogical College in Verkhneudinsk . At the end of the technical school he worked as a teacher of the Buryat language and literature in the Ekhirit-Bulagat aimak of the East Siberian Territory . In 1932 he entered the pedagogical college in Kyakhta . In 1934-1936 he served in the Red Army . After he began to work as a school teacher in the Eravninsky aimak of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and was soon elected a deputy of the aimag council.

He participated in the Great Patriotic War , fought at Stalingrad and Kursk , reached Königsberg , and then participated in the war with Japan . Since 1946, again on pedagogical work. From 1949 to 1970, he was the director of a secondary school in the village of Uldurga, Yervinsky district. In 1968, Zokto Nomoev was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor for his contribution to the education and communist education of students. In 1990, he received the title of People's Writer of Buryatia.

He started writing in the late 1920s. His first book was published as a separate publication in 1930. In 1939, the book "Husen" came out from under his pen. In 1949, the collection of poetry "Strength" was released. The largest work of Nomtoev was the novel "The Taiga River - Vitim", which saw the light in 1980. This novel was awarded the State Prize of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic .

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