Background
Kolesnikov-Pokornaya Zoya Konstantinovna (nee Surmina) was born on June 17, 1953 in the village Elizavetino, Buturlinovsky district, Voronezh region, Russian Federation.
Kolesnikov-Pokornaya Zoya Konstantinovna (nee Surmina) was born on June 17, 1953 in the village Elizavetino, Buturlinovsky district, Voronezh region, Russian Federation.
She graduated from the history department of the Voronezh State Pedagogical Institute (1976).
Zoya Konstantinovna Kolesnikov-Pokornaya was a teacher at a secondary school (Velikoarkhangelskoye village, Buturlinovsky district, 1977-1984), worked in the district House of Culture (Buturlinovka, 1984-1986), in the district library (village Ramon of the Voronezh region, 1986-1997).
In the city of Voronezh since 1997. Leading bibliographer of the Scientific Library of the Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Since 2004, the literary employee of the publishing house "Builder" at the Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
Published since 1981. The author published in Voronezh collections of poems: "Falern wine ..." (1994), "Testing joy" (1997), "Leaving in the rain" (2000), "For sonatas from dreams" (2003), "Dawn will come" ( 2005), “I am waiting for spring” (2007).