Prose Writer Fyodor Samokhin

Prose writer F. Samokhin was born in the village of Verkhne-Sadovskoye, Lower-Chirsky District of the Stalingrad Region, in a peasant-poor family.
In 1940, he graduated from the Lower-Chirskaya Secondary School. In 1944, he studied at courses for newspaper workers in Moscow.
He began his labor biography in 1934 as an accountant in his native collective farm, and from 1940 to 1942, he worked as a senior accountant at the Lower-Chir fishery point.

From 1942 to 1943, F. Samokhin was a member of the bureau of the Lower-Chir underground district committee of the Komsomol, served as a scout for a partisan detachment, and was severely wounded. After the liberation of this area from the enemy, he was appointed editor of the district newspaper "Kolhoznik Dona."
Since 1945, he has been a correspondent for "Komsomolskaya Pravda," from 1946, a literary staff member and head of the department of the newspaper "Leninskaya Smena" in Alma-Ata, and from 1947 to 1949, a special correspondent for the newspaper "Kommunist" (Jambyl Region).
Since 1949, he has lived and worked in Frunze.

From 1949 to 1961, he was a literary staff member and head of the department at the editorial office of the newspaper "Komsomolets of Kyrgyzstan," and from 1961 to 1963, he was a literary staff member at the editorial office of the magazine "Blocknote of the Agitator."
He has been engaged in literary creativity since 1944. The writer's first book was the story "Scout Klavdiya Panchishkina," published in 1952. The creative theme is the heroic feat of Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War—natives of Kyrgyzstan. A special place among the works created by the writer is occupied by the novella "Cholponbay," first published in 1958, dedicated to the immortal feat of the Hero of the Soviet Union Cholponbay Tuleberdiev.
He participated in the translation and publication of the collection of works by Kyrgyz front-line writers "Zveni, komuz!" (1985).

A member of the CPSU since 1944, a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1958.
Awarded medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad," "For Valorous Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin," "20 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945," "30 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945," "40 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945," and others, as well as three Certificates of Honor from the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR.

SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS

In Russian:
Scout Klavdiya Panchishkina. — Volgograd: 1952. — 48 pp.
The Boy from Stalingrad. — Volgograd: 1954. — 82 pp.
Cholponbay: Novella. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1958. — 191 pp.
Cholponbay: Novella. — M.: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1958. — 112 pp.
My Father's House: Novella. — F.: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1963. — 179 pp.
Hero from Talas: Stories. — M.: Politizdat, 1966. — 46 pp.
Chui Floods: Novella. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1968. — 188 pp.
Motherland, I Will Return!: Novella. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1975. — 167 pp.
Selected Works. — F.: Kyrgyzstan, 1978. — 252 pp.
Cholponbay: Novella. — F.: Mektep, 1982. — 128 pp.