Background
Ivan Vasilievich Sidelnikov was born in November 14, 1918 in the village of Sredny Ikorets, Bobrovsky district, Voronezh, Russian Federation. He was from a peasant family.
Ivan Vasilievich Sidelnikov was born in November 14, 1918 in the village of Sredny Ikorets, Bobrovsky district, Voronezh, Russian Federation. He was from a peasant family.
Ivan Vasilievich graduated from the Buturlinovsky College of Soviet Trade (1939).
Commodity expert of one of the military trade in the Far East (1939-1940). Literary employee of a regional newspaper in the city of Buturlinovka (1940-1941).
Member of World War II. After demobilization, editor of the Bogucharsky district newspaper "Collectivist" (1946-1948). Head of the agricultural department at the editorial office of the newspaper "Kommuna" (1948-1949). Executive editor of the newspaper "Young Communard" (1950-1952).
For many years, Ivan Vasilievich headed the interregional bureau of fiction propaganda at the Voronezh Writing Organization. In his works he paid attention mainly to the military theme. Ivan Vasilievich is the author of 10 books published in Voronezh, including "Defenders of Voronezh" (1951, 1956), "Lost Happiness" (1957, 1959, 1965, 1978), "Hearts were Warmed by Love" (1962, 1968), and "Soldiers' Fates" ( 1977), "Women of Russian villages" (1982), "Commissars" (1987), "To each - his own" (1991).