Background
He was born as Iosif Arkhipovich Shabdarov (Russian: Иосиф Архипович Шабдаров) in the village of Izi Luzhalu in Mari El.
He was born as Iosif Arkhipovich Shabdarov (Russian: Иосиф Архипович Шабдаров) in the village of Izi Luzhalu in Mari El.
He started writing poetry in 1918. He studied at a pedagogical college in Kazan. He was rehabilitated posthumously.
Like most of the Mari intelligentsia at the time, he became a victim of stalinism and was executed in Yoshkar-Ola on 11 November 1937.