Georgy Andreevich Vyatkin was a Russian and Soviet prose writer, poet, playwright, and publicist. He was an active participant in literary processes in Siberia, one of the founders of modern Siberian literature.
Background
Georgy Andreevich Vyatkin was born on April 13 (25), 1885 in Omsk, Russian Federation, in the family of a rural police sergeant - a musician of the Omsk Cossack village. Father - Andrei Ivanovich, a hereditary Cossack, mother - Alexandra Fominichna - a seamstress.
Education
Georgy Andreevich graduated from a teacher's seminary in Tomsk. He worked as a rural teacher. In 1902 he entered the Kazan Teacher’s Institute but was expelled as politically unreliable.
Career
Returning to Tomsk, Georgy Andreevich worked in the Siberian Life newspaper. He began to print in 1900. Since 1904 he has actively collaborated with major newspapers and magazines in Siberia, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow. As a correspondent, he traveled to Poland, Finland, was in Ukraine, in the Crimea, traveled a lot in Siberia. Throughout his creative life, Georgy Andreevich was interested in the Altai Mountains, was friends with the Altai creative intelligentsia, in particular with G. Gurkin, translated Altai songs and tales. He wrote the collections of Altai (1917) and Altai Tales (1926).
In 1914, Georgy Andreevich moved to Kharkov, where he worked for the newspaper Utro. During the First World War, he spent more than two years at the front, working in sanitary units. Not accepting the October Revolution, he joined the Social Revolutionaries. In the summer of 1918, he returned to Omsk. Actively engaged in literary activities. In 1920, Georgy Andreevich was tried by the Omsk Revolutionary Tribunal and deprived of suffrage for 3 years.
Since 1926 Georgy Andreevich lived in Novosibirsk, worked in the magazines Sibir and Tovarishch. Since 1927 - technical editor of the Siberian Lights magazine. Since 1930, Georgy Andreevich has been the technical and control editor of the Siberian Soviet Encyclopedia, a litho-consultant of Siberian Lights.
In 1937 Georgy Andreevich was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activity, shot in 1938. Rehabilitated in 1956.
Personality
The unique library and personal archive of Georgy Andreevich Vyatkin were lost.