Background
Vladimir Yakovlevich Kokosov was born on July 8 (July 20 in a new style), 1845 in the village of Krestovsky of the Perm province (now Uralskiy, Perm', Russian Federation) in the family of a priest, orphaned early.
Vladimir Yakovlevich Kokosov was born on July 8 (July 20 in a new style), 1845 in the village of Krestovsky of the Perm province (now Uralskiy, Perm', Russian Federation) in the family of a priest, orphaned early.
Vladimir Yakovlevich studied at the Perm Theological Seminary, from which in 1861 he was expelled as unreliable. He graduated from St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy (1870).
Over 30 years Vladimir Yakovlevich worked as a doctor in Eastern Siberia, including in the Carian hard labor (Nerchinsky district). In the years 1903-1904 Kokosov lived in the city of Voronezh, worked as a senior doctor of the 224th Skopinsky reserve battalion. Here, Kokosov wrote some stories. From 1902, he published stories and essays in the magazine Russkoye riches, the newspaper Russkie Vedomosti, and other publications that compiled the collection "Not Our doctor" (St. Petersburg, 1907). In 1955, in Kita, Kokosov’s book "On Carian hard labor" (introductory article by E.D. Petryaev) was published.
He was married to Yulia Semenovna Kiseleva, the daughter of a political exile, in the family they had nine children.
