Sergey Sartakov was born on March 13, 1908 in Omsk, Russian Federation in the family of a railway employee. Mother, Anna Yarubvina Narubina (1882-1930), originally from the village of Mushino, Vitebsk Oblast, Belatus. Father, Sartakov Venedikt Efremovich (1875-1968), originally from the village of Osino-Lazovka, Tambov Oblast', Russian Federation. Brother - Michael, sister - Valentine.
Education
In 1924, Sergey Sartakov, who studied independently in the multi-volume "Grammar School at home," passed exams for a school course as an external student. He graduated from the Higher Accounting and Finance Courses in Factory Accounting in Moscow.
Career
In 1931-1933 Sergey Sartakov served in the Red Army as the head of the accounting and financial sector of the military construction work site. In 1938 he published the first story. Since the mid-1940s, Sergey Sartakov devoted himself entirely to literary activity. In 1946, Sartakov’s book "On the Chun Thresholds" received the first prize of the All-Union Detgiz Competition. In 1957, after the suggestion of Leonid Sobolev, he was invited to the Organizing Committee to create the Union of Writers of the RSFSR, in 1958 he and his family moved to Moscow. He held high elected posts in Soviet writers' organizations, 8 years was deputy chairman of the Union of Russian writers, 21 years - deputy chairman of the Union of writers of the USSR. Sergey Sartakov was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Roman-Gazeta.
Connections
On June 1, 1941, Sergey Sartakov married an employee of Sevpolarles Sofya Popova.