About the book: 1963 / About the author Pavel Kuzmich Inshakov was born in 1908 in the city of Troitsk, Orenburg region, into a poor family. He grew up in Kuban. He was brought up in an orphanage. He began his working life early - he worked as a shepherd, farm laborer, and gardener. In 1924 he joined the Komsomol and began studying at an adult school. He worked at the Krasnodar oil refinery, graduated from the evening department of the workers' faculty, and then from the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute. As a student, P.K. Inshakov began to engage in literary creativity. In 1937, the city newspaper published his short poem “The Steppe True Story,” and a year later his poem “Cossack Woman” was published as a separate book. This was the beginning of the writer's literary activity. During the day, P.K. Inshakov studied at the institute, and in the evening he collaborated in regional newspapers, was a literary consultant, and head of the department of literature and art. In 1938, at the editorial office of the newspaper, he organized a regional literary association and led it until he left for the front. After graduating from the institute, P.K. Inshakov became the editor of the regional book publishing house and the Kuban almanac. At the beginning of the war, his second book of poems, “Poems about Heroes,” was published. In 1941, the writer voluntarily went to the front, began serving as an ordinary soldier in a cavalry unit, then was a military commissar, party organizer of a cavalry regiment, military journalist, and editor of a divisional newspaper. After demobilizing from the army, P.K. Inshakov worked as editor-in-chief of the regional book publishing house, headed the regional branch of the Writers' Union, and headed the book publishing house. During his literary career, P. K. Inshakov published books: the story “So Friendship Began”, the novels “Combat Youth”, “Spring”, “There Were Two Friends”, collections of stories “Our Friends”, “Everything Starts with Little Things” and other. P.K. Inshakov is a member of the CPSU, a member of the Writers' Union, a member of the regional peace committee, a member of the regional committee of the CPSU, and was repeatedly elected as a deputy of the city and regional Soviets of Working People's Deputies. Has six government awards.