Background
Pavel Kasatkin was born on December 1,1915 in Semeno-Aleksandrovka, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation. He was the 6th child.
Pavel Kasatkin was born on December 1,1915 in Semeno-Aleksandrovka, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation. He was the 6th child.
Childhood was characterized by poverty and a rural life. He lost his mother early in life and as a consequence was cared for by his step-mother.
In 1932 he graduated from the school of the 2nd stage in the city of Bobrov, attended the factory apprenticeship school (the city of Voronezh), and graduated from the medical technical school in Leningrad. In 1936 Kassatkin was awarded his Doctors Degree, from the Leningrad Medical Technical School. Immediately after this, he was transferred and served in the Red Army, where he remained until his retirement in Mongolia (1948).
Pawel Kassatkin worked at the front in the Japanese-Soviet War as a field doctor in the rank of feldsher. As a participant in the Japanese-Soviet conflict, he rescued soldiers from both conflict parties. During this time, in 1938, he wrote his first poems.
Parts of his first works were printed in Irkutsk in 1942 and Ulan-Ude in 1947. Later, they were published throughout the USSR.
After his departure from the army in 1948 he moved to Voronezh. He worked there until 1950 as a head doctor of the medical point in Bobrow. Following this period, he started working as a journalist for various local newspapers. In 1953 his first book "Rodnaja Step" appeared with his own works. Subsequently, more books and poems followed. In 1958 he finished the party university of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (C.P.S.U.).
In 1960, Kassatkin was appointed to the Writers' Union of the USSR after personal invitation from the board leader and in 1975 he was awarded with the Order of the Badge of Honour for his merits for local and Soviet literature.
On 19 May 1987, Kassatkin died of Cancer in his hometown of Voronezh.
While studying Kassatkin met his future wife Antonina Magazinskaja (1919 - 2014) and they married on October 13, 1938. They remained married until his death in 1987.
In 1939 his first child, Edward Pavlovich, was born in Mongolia. His second child, Tamara Pavlovna, was born in Voronezh in 1951.