Background
IGNAT’YEV, Nikon was born on March 31, 1895 in village Chalomkino, now Mountain-Mari Rayon, Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Son of a peasant.
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Nikon Vasil’yevich IGNAT’YEV
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Career
Worked as a farm-hand and Volga boatman. Served in Russian Army. 1919 began to write verse, prose and plays in Mari.
Under pseudonym Argus also wrote satirical press articles Translated Pushkin, Gorkv, etc into Mari.
Membership
Communist Party member from 1918.
