Frolov, Ivan Efimovich

Ivan Frolov was born on April 19, 1918 in the village of Kolybelka (now the Krasnozersky District of the Novosibirsk Region ). After graduation he worked as a teacher. He graduated from the Tomsk Teacher's Institute (1940). Member of the Great Patriotic War , he served in the Far East . It began to be printed in 1942 in military newspapers. After demobilization, he worked as a correspondent for the Altai Pravda in the districts of the Kulunda Steppe, as head of the literature and art department in a regional youth newspaper.

His literary activity lasted only 15 years, but during this time, which others take only years of apprenticeship, he managed to leave a large and bright mark on Altai poetry. Steppe Kulunda became the source of his poetry, he marked it on the map of Soviet literature.

Together with a group of young literary front-line artists, he created the Altai Almanac, a regional book publishing house, a writing organization. He was the first in Altai to be a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (since 1951 ), the first head of a writing organization, one of the first editors of Altai.

The post-war years include the blooming flowering of the poet. One after another, his books “My Kulunda”, “About the most simple and modest”, “Poems”, “Bread is coming”, “At a good hour”, “It's good when you are needed”, “The land in which we live” and others, just from 1950 to 1957 - eleven collections. Five books of Ivan Frolov were published after his death.

Frolov was a delegate to the Second All-Union Conference of Young Writers. In 1951–53, he was the first elected secretary of the Altai branch of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR . Worked in the regional Peace Committee .

Mikhail Isakovsky , Novosibirsk poet Alexander Smerdov, critic Zinoviy Paperny and many others gave a high assessment to the verses of Frolov. Alexei Surkov wrote about the poet:

Frolov turned away from the abstract-rhetorical posture in the stories about the new village ... He is trying to go along the difficult but noble path that Mayakovsky called for - to reveal in the most prosaic, most seemingly "not heroic", everyday, village professions pathos and nobility of devotion to one's own business.

- Alexey Surkov

Ivan Frolov died on November 5, 1957 in Barnaul, before he was forty years old.

• The first book of poems - "My Kulunda" (1950).
• Collection "On the most simple and modest" (1952)
• Collection of poems for children "Bread is coming" (1953)
• Collection "In good time!" (1955)
• Collection of poems for children "About Nadia" (1957)
• Collection "The Edge in which we live" (1957)
• Collection "It is good when you are needed" (1956, 2 nd. - 1972)

• Vetlugin I. On the most simple and modest // Siberian lights. - 1950. - № 5.
• Isakovsky M. On the most simple and modest // Lit. newspaper. - 1952. - November 27th.
• Kotov Vl. Poems by I. Frolov // Smena (journal) . - 1951. - № 4.
• Orekhovsky A. About the beauty of simple and modest // Altai writers about the contemporary. - Barnaul, 1961.