Suftin, Georgy Ivanovich

Born on January 22, 1906 in a peasant family, in the village of Antyushevskaya in the Palem volost of the Veliko-Ustyuzh district of the Vologda province, now Luzsky district of the Kirov region. In 1917 he graduated from the Karavaykov Church and Parish School, then, in 1920, the 2nd-level school in Lalsk . In 1924 he joined the Komsomol, organized a rural Komsomol cell. He graduated from the courses of projectionists, traveled to villages with a movie, and was a correspondent of the great-youth newspaper “Leninsky Smena”. In 1925 he became secretary of this newspaper. A year later, he was transferred to the provincial party newspaper Sovetskaya Mysl, where he goes from reporter to executive secretary. Then, during the year, he worked in the editorial office of the exit newspaper Verkhnetoyemsky lumberjack. In 1932 to 1935 he was deputy editor of the newspaper " Naryana vyder ".

In 1935, Georgy Ivanovich moved to Arkhangelsk, first worked as a secretary for the Star of the North magazine, then moved to the regional newspaper Pravda Severa. He worked as a literary and executive secretary, from 1951 to 1956 - editor of the newspaper. During World War II he was a war correspondent.

In 1940 he published a collection of poems, a significant part of which was devoted to the life of the tundra, and in the second collection, published in 1947, this topic occupied a leading place. In 1946, G. Suftin became a member of the Union of the Union of Writers of the USSR . Starts writing prose. From 1956 to 1965 he was the secretary of the Arkhangelsk regional branch of the Writers' Union, for a number of years he edited the literary North Almanac.

He died on December 23, 1965 in Arkhangelsk . He was buried at the Vologda cemetery .

One of the streets of Arkhangelsk is named after him

• Poems. - Arkhangelsk, 1940.
• Poems. - Arkhangelsk, 1947.
• Arctic meetings: stories and essays. - Akhangelsk, 1951. - From the contents: Meeting in the plague.
• The son of Hosea: a story. - Arkhangelsk, 1957.
• Makorin groom: a story. - Arkhangelsk, 1960.
• Family secret: a story. - Arkhangelsk, 1962.
• Trace of the blue fox: a story. - Arkhangelsk, 1963.
• Kumushka and the planet: fables, parodies. - Arkhangelsk, 1967. - Signed: Egor Belomor.

• Yashin A. Ya. Poems: [review] / A. Yashin // Literary newspaper. - 1947. - Dec 20
• Lenina L.I. By and large (G. Suftin) / L. Lenin // North. - 1957. - No. 18. - S. 154-157.
• Mikhailov A.A. North in the literature / A. Mikhailov. - Arkhangelsk, 1961. - S. 144-147.
• Skorokhodov M. How the Tundra Awakened / M. Skorokhodov // Truth of the North. - 1958. - March 12.
• Galimov Sh.Z. Man goes to the light / Sh. Galimov // Sense of time / Sh. Galimov. - Arkhangelsk, 1966 .-- S. 56-75.
• Georgy Ivanovich Suftin // Writers and poets of the Arkhangelsk region: bibliogr. ref. - Arkhangelsk, 1962 .-- S. 20-21.
• Suftin G.I.: (obituary) // Truth of the North. - 1965. - Dec 24.
• Kokovin E.S. Streets of Arkhangelsk narrate / E. Kokovin.- Arkhangelsk, 1973.- S. 48.
• Georgy Ivanovich Suftin: (on the occasion of his 70th birthday) // Memorable dates of the Arkhangelsk region, 1976. - Arkhangelsk, 1976 .-- S. 14-15.
• Georgy Ivanovich Suftin // Arkhangelsk writers: biobibliogr. reference / comp. B. Ponomarev. - Arkhangelsk, 1986. - S. 161-164.
• Ponomarev B.S. Writer and journalist / B.S. Ponomarev // Literary Arkhangelsk / B.S. Ponomarev.- Arkhangelsk, 1989. - P. 184-187.
• Ovsyankin E.I. The streets of Arkhangelsk are told / E.I. Ovsyankin. - Arkhangelsk, 1995 .-- S. 95.
• Nechay A.V. Suftin, Georgy Ivanovich / A.V. Nechay, V.F. Tolkachev // Arkhangelsk Journalists: XX Century: Encyclopedia / ed. ideas and ed. V.F. Tolkachev. - Arkhangelsk, 2008 .-- S. 437-438.

• Georgy Ivanovich Suftin // Arkhangelsk Regional Scientific Library named after N. A. Dobrolyubova
• Suftin Georgy Ivanovich // MKUK "Luz BIS"