Background
Descended from the family of workers. He spent his childhood in a small town Lyubonichi (now the Kirov region), where his parents had moved shortly after his birth.
Descended from the family of workers. He spent his childhood in a small town Lyubonichi (now the Kirov region), where his parents had moved shortly after his birth.
He studied at the Jewish elementary school, then in the Belarusian seven-year school in Lyubonichi.
After leaving school he entered workers' courses in Bobruisk. In 1935 - 39 he studied at the Literary and Linguistic Department of the Minsk Pedagogical Institute.
In 1939 drafted into the Army. He passed through Great Patriotic War from first to last. He took part in the liberation of Belarus, the Baltic States and in the assault of Konigsberg. He returned to Bobruisk after demobilization. In 1946 - 53 he worked as a political editor in regional abllit, and later as a teacher in rural schools in Bobruisk and Glussk regions. Before retirement he worked as an educator at a school in Bobruisk. He was decorated with medals and two Orders of the Patriotic War of the second degree. Plotkin
made his debut in 1934 in the Minsk Jewish newspaper “Der junger Arbeiter” (“A young worker”) by the poem “Spring” (publication has not found). Later his poems were published in magazines "Stern" (“Star”), “Sowjetisch Heimat” (“Soviet Motherland”), in the newspaper “October”, the Warsaw weekly “Volk-Stimme” (“People's Voice”) and others. In the mid-1940th the collection of poems by
four young authors was published in Minsk, and it comprised almost all poems written by Plotkin while studying at the workers' courses and at the pedagogical institute. In recent years he writes for a newspaper “Berobizhaner Shtern”. Plotkin’s poetry is imbued with lyricism; it’s full of reflection of human destiny, about the ways of victory of food over evil, about native Belarusian land.
