Yakovlev, Vasily Semenovich

He was born on April 1, 1928 in the Kytanakh assault of the Churapchinsky ulus of the Yakut ASSR in a peasant family. In 1948 he graduated from the Churapchinsky Pedagogical College, continued his studies at the History Department of the Yakutsk Pedagogical Institute.

In 1952, in the 4th year of study, Vasily Semenovich was innocently repressed on a false political charge of nationalism ("in the case of Professor G. P. Basharin "). Completely rehabilitated in 1954. He completed his studies only in 1955.

He worked as the head of the extra-curricular office of the Yakutsk Institute for Advanced Studies of Teachers, as a teacher, head teacher and director in the schools of Namsky and Churapchinsky uluses. Since 1977, he worked in the magazine Cholbon as the head of the prose department, and since 1992, as the chief editor.

V. S. Yakovlev - member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1979, candidate of pedagogical sciences, academician of the Academy of Spirituality of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

In 1976, the rural teacher V. S. Yakovlev, under the pseudonym Dalan, published his first work on the pages of the republican magazine Hotugu Sulus, the novel Dykti Saas ( Brave Spring ). The first story, written on the materials of twenty years of pedagogical work, about graduates of a rural school, received positive feedback from readers and literary critics. In 1978, the story was published by the Yakut book publishing house.

The writer’s work reflected many facts and events from the history of his native people: the tragedy of the Churapchins fellow countrymen during the war, pictures of student life in post-war Yakutia, repressions that tragically decided the fate of people in the 50s.

Writer-teacher V. S. Yakovlev - Dalan wrote for children the books “Teppei Bocchumurar” ( Teppei grows up , 1984), “Legends of the White North” (1985), “Karien Yiyya” (1988), “White Cranes of the North”, and others . He was also the compiler of the anthology "Yakut Literature" for the X class.

Famous works of Dalan

• The story "Aar taykam suuguna" ( Song of the Great Taiga ), 1980
• The novel “Bүtej Bүlүү” (“Tulaayah oҕo”, Deaf Vilyuy )
• The historical novel “Tygyn Darkhan” (The Disturbing Age of Tygyn ), 1993

• The novel "Doҕoruom, dabay kuh syyrdargyn" (the original name is "Ketehiileeh kemner", Come up, a friend on the green hills ), 1975-1982
• 2nd part. The novel "Kynattah Yralar" ( Winged Dreams )
• Roman essay “Dyilkam Miene” ( My fate ), 1994

• People's writer of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
• Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) named after P. A. Oyunsky (1993, for the historical novel “Tygyn Darkhan”) ^[1]
• Order of Friendship (1997) ^[2]
• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Veteran of Labor Medal

• The name of the national writer V. S. Yakovlev - Dalan was given to the Kytanakh secondary school of the Churapchinsky ulus.
• Jewelry diamond mined at the Aikhalsky GOK factory weighing 49.48 carats was given the name "Writer Yakovlev - Dalan" (Order of ALROSA General Director dated 05/06/1997).

• Vasilieva D.E. Dalan / S.A. Tumat .. - Dyokuuskay: Polygraphist, 1998. - 245 p. (Yakut.)
• Dalan (Republic of Chuluu Diono). - Dyokuuskay: Bichik, 2001 .-- 176 p. (Yakut.)
• Pesterev V.I. History of Yakutia in persons. - Yakutsk: Bichik, 2001 .-- S. 314-319. - 464 p. - ISBN 5-7696-1606-7 .
• Borisov E.A. Uchuutalym tuhunan kes rear: Akhtyy // Cholbon. - 1998. - No. 4 . - S. 81-82 . (Yakut.)
• Vasilyeva D. Bihigi literature byt uhulucculaah sitihiite: [“Tygyn Darkhan” novels yryty] // Sakha Sire. - 08/17/2000. (Yakut.)
• Vasiliev D. Dalan-Darkhan // Cholbon. - 1998. - No. 4 . - S. 79-81 . (Yakut.)

• Vasily Semenovich Yakovlev - Dalan (neopr.) . Yakutsk State Literary Museum named after P. A. Oyunsky. Date of treatment March 15, 2014.
• Dora Vasilieva. Dalan kөҥүle wonna kirdyga // Sakha Sire newspaper. - 04/08/2008. Archived March 15, 2014. (Yakut.)
• 75 years since the birth of V.S. Yakovlev-Dalan, People's Writer of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Laureate of the P.A. Oyunsky State Prize, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (Neopr.) (Unavailable link) . National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Date of treatment March 15, 2014. Archived on April 24, 2017.