Evgeny Andreevich Panfilov

Background

Evgeny was born on December 13, 1901, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation in the family of a worker, was one of eight children.

Education

In 1917 he graduated from the higher primary school and got a job at the factory "Goznak". In 1920 he began his studies at the Petrograd University. In 1926-1927, continuing his education, he went to work at the plant "Russian Diesel".

Career

Since 1930 he became the head of the library of the Leningrad Cardboard Factory. From his youth, he tried to write poetry, produced a manuscript journal. After 1917, he studied at the literary studio of Proletkult, where he became acquainted with the poets A. Kraisky, A. Mashirov-Samobytnik, I. Sadofiev who had already taken place. In 1920 he published his first poems - in the magazine "The Future", the newspapers "The Village Poor" and

"The Petrograd truth ". At the same time, he became a participant in the Leningrad Association of Proletarian Writers. Studying at the university, together with other students, he published the magazine "Vulkan " (1922-1923), in 1923 he published a collection of "The Singing Gang" with I.Vasilev and V.Richiotti.

The first collection of poems by Panfilov "At the Turn" was published in 1926. In another two years, the following book was published: the collection "On the seventh floor". The third book of selected poems, "Dream", was ready on the eve of the Great Patriotic War, but during the life of the poet never came out.

In his mature years, Eugene Panfilov became an instructor of the Writers' Union for the work of literary works, led literary circles at the Izhora factory and the factory "Svetlana", tried himself in prose and journalism. When the war broke out he was enlisted in the People's Militia and was included in the writing agitation platoon of the Kirov division. At the front, he worked as a military correspondent for the divisional newspaper For the Soviet Motherland. In August 1941, in the battles of the Oredezh River, he was killed.

Works

• publication

  • "The Dream"

    (Was published posthumously)

    1958

  • "At the Turn"

    1926

  • "On the seventh floor"

    1928

Connections

Wife - Anna Sokolova, daughter Zinaida, sons Garibald and Anatoly. They died in early 1942 during the siege of Leningrad.