Ivan Grigoryevich Istomin Biography
Ivan Grigoryevich Istomin. The biography of Ivan Grigoryevich Istomin was born on February 7 in the village of Muzhi, Shuryshkarsky district of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Tyumen Region, in the Komi-Rybak family. Childhood passed in the lower reaches of Malaya Ob, where the northern dialects of the Kazym kasim, Nenets, Komi, Russians and Mansi merge in the linguistic element.
At the age of three, he was seriously ill, remained disabled for life, at nine years old he got on crutches. In the year, he graduated from the seven -year -old men, moved to Salekhard, graduated with honors from the National Pedagogical School in the year. Within the walls of the pedigree, he was one of the organizers of the national literary circle and the Yamal Tattoo handwritten magazine, “Sparks of Yamal”.
Twelve years I. Istomin taught Russian, Nenets languages and drawing in schools of the North. The first poem "Deer" was published in the district newspaper in March. Since then, poems and stories, essays and journalistic articles have been systematically published in district and regional newspapers, in the Omsk Almanac, in the magazines Siberian Lights, Friendship of Peoples, Ural, Neva, in the journal of Komi Voyviv Kodzuv, in the Almanac “Polar Circle” and others.
In December, he moves to Tyumen and works as deputy chief editor for national literature in the Tyumen book publishing house. From the year - in creative work. The first book of I. Istomin - a collection of poems in the Nenets language “Our North” - was published in the year in Leningrad. In the publishing houses of the Tyumen, Middle-Ural, “Contemporary”, “Soviet writer”, “Fiction”, more than 20 books by Istomin-novels, stories, poems in Nenets and Russian, novels “Live”, “Get up”.
The work of the writer is diverse. Stories and stories, poems and plays, essays and fairy tales were published in Russian, Nenets, which the author speaks as freely as the languages of Komi and Khanty. Istomin is working on translations from Russian to Nenets and Komi languages. Many Istomin’s verses, laid down on the music by local composers, are widely popular.
The writer is engaged in painting. His two paintings “The arrest of the legendary leader of the Nenets-Khanty poor Vauli Pittoma” and “Lenin on Yamal” are exhibited in the Salekhard Museum of Local Lore. The pedagogical and literary activities of I. Istomin are marked by the Order of the Badge of Honor, the medal "For Labor Valor". The name of Ivan Grigoryevich Istomin - a writer, a citizen is connected with the thirties, when writing and the national intelligentsia of small nationalities were born on Yamal.
He became the first singer of the Yamal North. The theme of his work: the tundra, the life of the Ob residents, the original culture of small nationalities today Yamal opened its pantries for the Sub -Sortic Urals, its oil and gas reserves are enormous. But for the good will this go to people, will it put the natural environment on the line of disaster? Much depends on us, on the level of our spirituality, knowledge of the history and respect of the Yamal land.
It would not be late for the Yamal writers to catch these processes and reflect them, pose a baton, which Ivan Grigoryevich Istomin adequately carried.