Poet E. Prag was born on August 6, 1936, in Simferopol in a working-class family.
In 1954, he graduated from high school in Orsk.
He began his labor biography as an electrician.
In 1954, he was accepted as an actor in the Orsk City Drama Theater named after A. S. Pushkin.
Since 1956, he has lived and worked in Frunze.
From 1957, he was an artist at the State Russian Drama Theater named after N. K. Krupskaya.
He has been engaged in literary creativity since 1953. The poet's first book was a collection of satirical poems titled "Acts and Facts" (co-authored), published in 1963. A collection of humorous stories and a novella "A Cheerful Conversation" was released in 1976.
He is the author of a number of sharp satirical stories, feuilletons, adventure works, and intermezzos.
The poet's satirical poems are regularly published in the central press and broadcast on local and all-Union radio. E. Prag is known as a translator of satirical works by Kyrgyz poets. He has translated poems by M. Tursunaliev, Dzh. Alybaev, and others into Russian.
People's Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR (1985).
Member of the CPSU since 1964, member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1982, member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR since 1962.
Awarded the medal "For Valorous Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin," Honorary Certificate, and Certificate of the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR, Honorary Certificates from the Central Committee of the Komsomol and the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Kyrgyzstan.
Died on August 1, 1989.
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS
in Russian
A Cheerful Conversation: Humorous Stories and Novella. — Frunze: Mektep, 1976. — 91 pages.
No Change Needed!: Feuilletons, Satirical Stories, Humoresques, and Miniatures. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1979. — 92 pages.
Laughter is Laughter: Satirical and Humorous Poems. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1981. — 84 pages.
Investigation in Case Number Zero: Adventure Novella. — Frunze: Mektep, 1984. — 128 pages.
Nice Jokes!..: Satire and Humor. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1986. — 208 pages.