Background
Vitaliy Alekseevich Shishakov was born in 1893.
journalist popularizer of scientific knowledge
Vitaliy Alekseevich Shishakov was born in 1893.
Vitaliy Alekseevich served as a private in an artillery unit during the First World War. He graduated from the provincial out-of-school education courses in Voronezh in 1918.
In 1918-1921 Vitaliy Alekseevich worked in the Nizhnedevitsky uyezd: a cultural enlightenment worker in the Istobensky volost, deputy head of the district public education, head of the district political enlightener, secretary of the newspaper "Krasny communar", "Izvestiya uiskolkoma and ucoma of the RCP (b)".
Vitaliy Alekseevich was an employee of the provincial newspaper "Voronezhskaya communa" and "Nasha gazeta" in 1922-1923. Correspondent of the newspaper "Pravda" in the Voronezh province (1923).
Instructor, lecturer-methodologist of the Central Council of the League of Militant Atheists of the USSR (Moscow, since 1929). In 1934, Vitaly Alekseevich became the first leader of the astronomical circle that had just opened at the Moscow Planetarium. Organized the publication of the annual "School Astronomical Calendar" (since 1949, 23 issues).
Vitaliy Alekseevich died in Moscow.
Vitaliy Alekseevich was the organizer of the Voronezh Provincial Union of Atheists (1921) and the responsible secretary of the scientific society "Atheist" in 1923.
Quotations: In 1972, in his memoirs, almost at the very end of his life, Vitaliy Alekseevich wrote: "I do not cling to life as many people who have lived empty and meaningless lives do it. Not! I want only until the last hour to maintain clarity of thought and be able to express it ... "
In 1972, in his memoirs, almost at the very end of his life, Vitaly Shishakov wrote: 'I do not cling to life as many people who have lived empty and meaningless lives do it. Not! I want only until the last hour to maintain clarity of thought and be able to express it ... '
