Mikhail Yakovlevich Shishlyannikov

Background

Mikhail Yakovlevich Shishlyannikov was born on July 20, 1930 in Vysoky village, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation to a peasant family.

Education

Mikhail Yakovlevich finished middle school in 1948 in Kamennaya Steppe, Talovsky District, Voronezh Oblast, Russian Federation. Then in 1954 he graduated from Correspondence Philological Department of the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Voronezh State University.

Career

Mikhail Yakovlevich worked at the Talovsky district Committee of the the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League during 1949-1951. During 1951-1954 he was employed in the editorial office of the district newspaper "Talovsky kolkhoznik". Then he worked as an editor of the Voronezh regional newspaper "Kolkhoz znamya" (Levaya Rossosh village, 1954-1957), "Znamya of socialism" (Vorontsovka village, 1957-1959).

During 1959-1967 Mikhail Yakovlevich was the chief editor of the newspaper "Young Communard". After that during 1967-1980 he occupied the position of the chairman of the Committee for Television and Radio-broadcasting of the Voronezh Regional Executive Committee.

Mikhail Yakovlevich also was a poet. The first publications of his poems appeared in the "Talovsky kolkhoznik" in the early 1950s. His collections of poems were published in Voronezh: "Steppe dawns" (1957), "Meeting" (Vstrecha) (1963), "My singing Land" (1972), "Attraction" (1982), "Ascent" (1987).

Mikhail Yakovlevich died on February 23, 1993 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.

Membership

• Union of Journalists

  1959

Connections

Daughter:

Anna Mikhailovna Shishlyannikova