Background
ZAVALISHIN, Aleksandr was born on June 30, 1891 in Kulcvchinskiy Settlement, Nikolayevskaya village, Orenburg Region.
ZAVALISHIN, Aleksandr was born on June 30, 1891 in Kulcvchinskiy Settlement, Nikolayevskaya village, Orenburg Region.
As a child worked as hired farmhand. Then clerk and statistician. Took part in Revol and civil War in Moscow, Southern Urals ans Siberia.
After 1917 October Revo] public, lit and ed work. From 1922 lived in Moscow and worked for newspaper “Bednota”. 1925 first work printed.
Wrote short humorous stories and one-act plays for rural amateur drama groups. Arrested by State Security organs.
Communist Party member from 1920.