Poet A. Zaitsev was born on February 3, 1935, in the city of Kyzyl-Kiya, Osh region, in a family of civil servants. Having lost his parents at an early age, he was raised in Frunze by his grandfather. In 1949, he graduated from seven grades in Frunze, in 1951 — from a vocational school in Voroshilovgrad, and in 1977 — from the correspondence department of the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute under the USSR Union of Writers in Moscow.
From 1954 to 1957, he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. He began his working biography in 1951 as a fitter-adjuster at a factory. Since 1957, he has worked as an assembly fitter at the M. V. Frunze Agricultural Engineering Plant, and since 1985, he has been the editor of the factory's mass-circulation newspaper "Selmagpevets."
He has been published since 1960. His first poetry collection "Work" was published in 1972. He translated into Russian the book "Cheerful Alphabet" by A. Kydyrov, as well as individual works by T. Shamsiyev, T. Samudininov, M. Aamatov, and others.
He has been a member of the USSR Union of Writers since 1980.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
in Russian
Work: Poems. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1972. — 43 pages.
Alloy: Poems. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1979. — 5 pages.
Echo on a String: Poems. — Frunze: Mektep, 1981. — 24 pages.
Birth of Fire: Poems. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1983. — 52 pages.
Annual Rings: Poems. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1986. — 76 pages.
TRANSLATIONS
Cheerful Alphabet: Poems. — Frunze: Mektep, 1984. — 20 pages.
