Background
OL’KHON, Anatoliy was born on March 24, 1903 in Vologda.
OL’KHON, Anatoliy was born on March 24, 1903 in Vologda.
Graduate Herzen Teachers’ Training Institute, Leningrad.
Lived and worked in Far North, Centr Asia and Transcaucasia. In 1930’sand 1940’s toured Eastern Siberia, Buryatia, Yakutia, the Arctic. 1924 first work published.
Member, “The Pass” lit associate. 1928-1930 deputy chairman, Moscow Social of Peasant Writers. From 1931 lived in Irkutsk.
Translated work of Yakut and Buryat writers. Published some 40 collections of verse, translations, fairy-tales and children's books