Mikhail Ivanovich Tkachev is a talented poet. Many of Tkachev's works are set to music. Also, he is an author of several books published in Minsk. For example, "Why do birches cry?" (1987, 1998), "Mickiewicz and Pushkin: origins and traditions of Russian poetry" (2003), "Tales of the Don" (2003).
Background
Mikhail Ivanovich Tkachev was born on November 22, 1941, in Yudino, Voronezh, Russian Federation. His father and mother were peasants. Tkacheva Anna Vasilyevna, the mother of Mikhail Ivanovich, was a woman of amazing kindness and spiritual generosity. His father died in the war. Little Misha never saw his father.
Education
Mikhail Ivanovich graduated from a primary school in Yudino, then Mikhail studied at a seven-year school in Kostomarovo. But he completed his school education in high school in the village of Saguni. From 1959 to 1960 Mikhail Ivanovich studied at technical school № 3. He decided to continue his technical education and get into the mechanical engineering faculty of the Polytechnic Institute in Voronezh (now Voronezh State Technical University). According to the postgraduate work assignment in 1969, he arrived in Minsk (where he lives now).
Career
After graduation of technical school № 3, Mikhail Ivanovich worked in the forging shop of the Voronezh aircraft factory. After the University, he worked as a design engineer at the Transistor plant. Mikhail Ivanovich was deputy chief of one of the financial administration in the Department of Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian SSR for 13 years, during the period 1978-1991.
Since 1995, Mikhail Ivanovich has actively promoted Russian culture. It is also at his initiative the A. Nikitina Russian Folk Choir (1996) and the Ensemble of Russian romances (2000) were created in Minsk. Since 2007, Mikhail Tkachev is the Chairman of the International Public Association "Rus United".