Background
UTKIN, Iosif was born on May 15, 1903 in settlement Hinkang, China.
UTKIN, Iosif was born on May 15, 1903 in settlement Hinkang, China.
1927 graduate Moscow Institute of Journalism.
1920 left Irkutsk high-school and volunteered for Red Army. 1923 first work printed. 1929-1930 publicly criticized his own poetry.
During World War 2 worked for army newspapers.