Boris Vasilievich Bedny (Russian: Борис Васильевич Бедный) Russian Soviet writer. Boris Bedny was born into a teacher's family in 1916 in the village of Yaroslavskaya, Krasnodar Territory. He graduated from the Maikop Forestry College and was sent to study at the Leningrad Forestry Academy. He became an expert in timber rafting and came to the Komi Republic to work at rafting enterprises. In October 1941, Boris went to the front, and in August 1942 he was captured, and remained there until April 1945. “He began to write before the war, at the academy,” poet K. Vanshenkin said about him in the preface to the book “The First Deed”. “He was a member of literary circles and studios. He was published in the Komi republican newspaper "For the New North" ("Red Banner") and finally decided to turn fate again by entering the Literary Institute "in 1952.