Prose Writer, Playwright Vasily Parshkov

Prose writer, playwright V. I. Parshkov was born on January 14, 1897, in the village of Marchuki in the former Skopin district of the Ryazan province, into a peasant family of the poor.
Since 1907, he lived in Kyrgyzstan. In 1909, he graduated from the 2nd grade of a church parish school, and in 1920, he completed courses for middle-level party personnel in Tashkent, later engaging in self-education.
From the age of 12, he worked as a laborer for wealthy peasants and did earthworks for contractors.
In 1915, he was drafted into the ranks of the tsarist army, participated in battles on the Turkish front, and was wounded.
In 1917, he took part in the partisan movement against the Semirechye White Cossacks.
In 1918, he volunteered for the Red Army in the city of Tokmak and participated in suppressing the Belyovodsk counter-revolutionary uprising.
In 1920, under the command of M. V. Frunze, he fought for Bukhara, and then battled the Basmachi in the Fergana Valley and in Alai.
From 1925, he worked as a reporter for the newspaper "Krestyanskiy Put," later becoming the head of a department.
From 1954 until his retirement, V. Parshkov was engaged in journalism.
His creative biography began in 1918.
He started publishing in 1926. As a journalist, he wrote numerous short stories, feuilletons, publicistic articles, and essays.
In 1952, his novella "On Mountain Paths" was published in the almanac "Kyrgyzstan."
In 1954, his novella "In the Mountains of Ala-Tuu" was released as a separate edition. He is the author of several novellas, short stories, and the play "Time Does Not Wait" (1954).
A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1918, he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1955.
He was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR.
He was elected as a deputy of the Karakol City Council of People's Deputies (1929).
He passed away on July 25, 1960.

SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS

in the Kyrgyz language
Machine Gunners: A novella about the Civil War in Kyrgyzstan. — Frunze: Kyrgyzmambas, 1962. — 144 pages. Machine Gunners.
in the Russian language
In the Mountains of Ala-Tuu. — Frunze: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1954. — 144 pages.
Tamga: An Adventure Novella. — Frunze: Kyrgyzuchpedgiz, 1956. — 60 pages.
Machine Gunners: A Novella about the Civil War in Kyrgyzstan. — Frunze: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1957. — 93 pages.
Guide: Stories. — Frunze: Kyrgyzuchpedgiz, 1958. — 99 pages.
Naryn Case: A Novella. — Frunze: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1959. — 88 pages.
Combat Days: Novellas about the Civil War in Kyrgyzstan. — Frunze: Kyrgyzuchpedgiz, 1960. — 183 pages.
Desperate Heads: Novellas and Stories. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1965. — 532 pages.
Machine Gunners: A Novella. — Frunze: Mektep, 1977. — 116 pages.