Anatoly Nikiforovich Sanzharovsky was born on October 9, 1938 in the village of Kovda, Kandalaksha District, Murmansk Region, Russian Federation. From a family of immigrants expelled from the village of Novaya Kriusha, Kalacheevsky district, Voronezh region (1934).
After graduating from high school (the city of Makharadze, Georgia), Anatoly Nikiforovich returned with his parents to the Voronezh region.
Anatoly Nikiforovich was a stoker at the creamery (Evdakovo station), handyman at an industrial plant (Kamenka village). It has been published since 1955. An employee of many district newspapers (the village of Schuchye, the city of Liski and others). ]
Anatoly Nikiforovich graduated in absentia from the journalism department of Rostov State University (1966). Later he was at journalistic work in Moscow (in particular, he was an editor in the central office of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union). Since 1979, in a professional literary position. Anatoly Nikiforovich was published in the journal "Our Contemporary", "Young Guard", "Student Meridian", "Young Naturalist" and other publications
