Alexander Popov (Yashin - his pen name in Russian Александр Яшин) was born on 14 (27) in March 1913 in the village Bludnova (now Nikolsky Vologda Region) in a peasant family. Seventh grade and graduated from the Pedagogical College in Nikolsk. Since 1932 he worked as a rural teacher, then as a journalist. Already fifteen years Sasha Popov began to be printed in national magazines, in the same young age, he was elected a delegate to the first North Dvina Provincial Congress of Proletarian Writers, at nineteen he - writer of the regional newspaper, Chairman of the organizing committee of the regional Union of Writers. After two years in Arkhangelsk Yashin published the first book "Songs of the North", and he was immediately sent a delegate to the First Congress of Writers in Moscow. Beside him, sitting in the hall L.M.Leonov, MA Sholokhov, Gorky. A year later, he moved permanently to the capital and entered the Literary Institute. Gorky (finished in 1941). Becoming known after the publication of the book "Severyanka" (1938). The war he volunteered Yashin was war correspondent and political worker, participated in the battles. Feat Stalingrad dedicated his poem, "The City of Anger" (1943). Frontier World Yashin was performed on a par with everyone else. Wartime emergencies do not become a poet, editor and correspondent mnogotirazhek essential experience of the soul. The war did not begin its topic. Alexander Yashin has not entered once and for all the mighty poets commissioned soldiers and military not write prose (exception - a single story "After the battle"). Yashin was discharged for health reasons in 1944 In the 1940-1950s . he published several collections of poems, for the poem "Alena Fomin" (1949) he was awarded the Stalin (State) Award. Alexander Yashin later realized that his talent - especially talent writer. "Mundane attribute to his debut in 1956 - he wrote - when the story was published" Leverage "." His stories "Leverage" (1956), "Vologda Wedding" (1962), "My treat ash" (1965) and others has become a landmark for Russian prose, were marked by civil courage and a high artistic level. "I became too much to understand and and see with what I can not accept, "- he once wrote in his diary. Wealth and Poverty powers mere mortals, deceit and injustice, bullying officials over Russia ... Yashin Tale "Visiting son" (1957) was published only in the eighties, in the wake of "perestroika", shamelessly cloned "thaw" of the late fifties and early sixties, but it turned out to be an eternal story. confessional sincerity and filled with collections of poems Yashin "Barefoot in the earth" (1965), "The Day of Creation" (1968). Yashin - one of the founders of the Vologda writers' organization, a senior fellow and teacher V.I.Belova, N.M.Rubtsova, A.A.Romanova, V.V.Korotaeva Vologda and other writers. He was one of the first predicted outstanding poetic fate Nicholas Rubtsov, and no mistake. Yashin and not mistaken in assessing his favorite student Vasily Belov. He strongly advised him, then another author of the poetic books, writing prose. His message was dying literary testament: "Looking back, I think that we spend a lot of time wrongfully on unnecessary trouble (for all sorts of alleged theoretical research and talk about the essence of poetry, ways of its development, traditions and nationalities), when ... you just need to write. Write, who spelled. Write until written. Write, while desirable, yet pulls up to the table. Write and write, and there ... we'll see what that's worth, who will be able to achieve that same ... Different theoretical essays and let the calculations assumes someone else, one of those who probably smarter than us ... But the fact of the artist - to sit and their work, constant creative tension, concentration and diligence to pay for the great good fortune to live on earth. " A. I. Yashin died July 11, 1968 in Moscow. He was buried in his native village. Yashin named s