Background
IVNIK, Ivan was born in 914 in village Syaval, Kazan’ province. Son of a peasant.
IVNIK, Ivan was born in 914 in village Syaval, Kazan’ province. Son of a peasant.
1929 first verse published. Translated the works of Russian and Ukraine writers into Chuvash, including Pushkin’s Bakhckisaraysltiy fontan (The Fountain of Bakhchisaray) and Kamennyy gost' (The Stone Guest), Lermontov’s Mtsyri (The Solitary Monks), Shcvschcnko’s Son (Sleep) and poems by Mayakovskiy, M. V. Isakovskiy, et cetera Also put Chuvash folk tales into verse.