Background
Yakov Sergeevich Sidorin was born on December 20, 1923 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Yakov Sergeevich Sidorin was born on December 20, 1923 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Yakov Sergeevich Sidorin graduated from the Voronezh secondary school number 9. After demobilization (October 1945), he studied for one year at the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Voronezh State University. He received the profession of a shipbuilding engineer in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg).
Since 1952 Yakov Sergeevich Sidorin worked at the Leningrad Central Scientific Research Institute named after Academician A.N. Krylov, for many years was in charge of one of the laboratories. He composed a library rich in rare and valuable publications, mainly of the 19th - early 20th centuries.
Chairman of the bibliophile club "Biron Stables", founded in the summer of 1988 at the All-Russian Museum A.S. Pushkin.
The author of a number of publications on the history of Russian bibliophilia and the most noteworthy publications. Sidorin’s memoirs "Voronezh second-hand booksellers" were published in the journal "Ascent" (1998, No. 12). Until the end of his life, Sidorin maintained close country ties with the Voronezh residents.