Background
Egor was born on May 2, 1926 in Korshevo, Bobrovsky uyezd, RSFSR in the family of teachers.
Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of Lenin
Order of the Patriotic War
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Badge of Honour
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War"
Lenin Prize
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Egor was born on May 2, 1926 in Korshevo, Bobrovsky uyezd, RSFSR in the family of teachers.
He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in 1955. He was an intern at the editorial office of the Voronezh newspaper Kommuna in 1953. From 1949 he was published in the almanac “Literary Voronezh”, where Isayev’s first poem “Face to Face” (1951, No. 3) was placed.
As a soldier, he wrote "The Ballad of Warsaw", under the impression of the form of the ruined city, in the release which he participated. The further fate of the war made him a participant in offensive operations near Berlin and Prague, many local fights. After the war, Yegor Isayev served in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Austria, for nearly five years, being a member of Forces of the Soviet Army.
Being a soldier, he continued to write, publishing his first works in the divisional newspaper, then in the newspaper "For the honor of the motherland." There he worked as a proofreader until demobilization in 1950. In civilian life, he saw himself as only a writer, so he entered the Moscow Literary Institute. Gorky, who graduated with honors.
The author of the poems: “The Judgment of Memory” (1962), “Dal of Memory” (1976), “The Twenty-Fifth Hour” (1984), “My Autumn Fields” (1984), “Killed a Crane Hunter” (1985) and others, several books, literary-critical articles.
In modern times, he held major administrative and public positions in the literary and publishing world. He repeatedly visited Voronezh and his native village. G.Ya.Lutkov wrote a lot about Isaev in the Voronezh press. Lutkov, according to his screen version the film Egorova River (1981) was shot at a local television studio.
In October 2005, Isaev made a speech at the presentation of his book “Selected Works” (Moscow, 2005; volume 1-2) in the Voronezh Regional Universal Scientific Library named after I.S. Nikitin and met with students of the Voronezh State Pedagogical University and journalists of the Communa.