Background
BAGMUT, Ivan was born in 1903 in village Babaykovtsy, now Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.
BAGMUT, Ivan was born in 1903 in village Babaykovtsy, now Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.
1921 graduated Novo-Moskovsk Teachers’ Seminary. Studied at Kharkov Agriculture Institute.
In 1920's traveled widely in USSR: Altay, Central Tyan-Shan, Birobidzhan, Karelia and Okhotsk seacoast. Author of travel sketches and pop. children's books. 1941-1945 in Soviet Army.
After World War II specialized in children's books.