Ivan Andrianovich Bagmut [Ukrainian: Іван Андріанович Багмут] Ukrainian Soviet writer, journalist and playwright. Born into a large family of a rural teacher. He graduated from a parish school, from 1913 he studied at the Novomoskovsk classical gymnasium. In 1919 he entered the last year of the teachers' seminary, which he graduated in 1921. He worked as a rural teacher, was in charge of political education in the volost. Subsequently he moved to Kharkov. He was an inspector of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR, later - editor of the youth literature department at the State Publishing House of Ukraine, literary editor of the art department of the All-Ukrainian radio control, an assistant at RATAU . At the same time he studied at the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, which later left and was actively involved in the literary life of the Ukrainian capital, along with the writers I. Mykytenko, I. Kulik, P. Panch, A. Kopylenko, O. Donchenko, Y. Smolich. After the war, Ivan Bagmut worked mainly in the genre of children's literature. Author - works about the Great Patriotic War, travel notes, essays, plays, works for children and youth.