Alexander Antonovich Yunda was a Russian artist, local historian and poet.
Background
Alexander Antonovich Yunda was born on September 24, 1941 in Khmyzovka village, Ladomirovsky district, Voronezh region, Russian Federation. He was born into a family of peasant. Alexander Antonovich spent his childhood in the village of Olkhovatka in the Voronezh region.
Education
Alexander Antonovich Yunda graduated from the faculty of philology of Voronezh State University (1970).
Career
In 1972-1982, 1986-1998, Alexander Antonovich worked as a teacher in Narva, Estonian SSR (now Estonia), Chukotka and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, in the North of Kamchatka.
He lives in Ivangorod, Leningrad region, where he was the director of the Historical-Architectural and Art Museum (1982-1986). As a painter and book graphic artist, he participated in zonal exhibitions (Saint Petersburg).
Author of such collection of poems as "Songs of rifts" (Ivangorod, 2000), "Invisible distance" (Chelyabinsk, 2004), many essays on the history of the North-West of Russia.