Nikolay Rubtsov

Nikolay Mikhaylovich Rubtsov (; 3 January 1936, Yemetsk, Northern Krai19 January 1971, Vologda) was a Russian poet.

Biography Nikolay Rubtsov was born on January 3, 1936, in the village of Yemetsk, Yemetsky district of the Northern Territory (now Kholmogory district of the Arkhangelsk region).

In 1937 he moved with his large family to Nyandoma.

In 1939–1940, Rubtsov's father Mikhail Andrianovich worked as the head of the Nyandoma Gorpo.

In January 1941, Mikhail Rubtsov left Nyandoma for the Vologda City Party Committee. In Vologda, the Rubtsovs were caught up in the Great Patriotic War.

In the summer of 1942, Rubtsov's mother and younger sister died, their father was at the front, and the children were sent to boarding schools. That same summer, 6-year-old Nikolay wrote his first poem.

Nikolay and his brother first ended up in the Krasovsky orphanage, and from October 1943 until June 1950, Nikolay lived and studied in an orphanage in the village of Nikolskoye, Totemsky District, Vologda Oblast, where he graduated from seven classes of school (now the House is located in this building). Museum of N. M. Rubtsov). In the same village, his daughter Yelena was subsequently born in a de facto marriage with Henrietta Mikhailovna Menshikova.

In his autobiography, written upon entering the trawl fleet in 1952, Nikolay wrote that his father went to the front and died in 1941. But in fact, Mikhail Andrianovich Rubtsov (1899–1962) survived; after being wounded in 1944, he returned to Vologda and in the same year married again, lived in Vologda. Due to the loss of documents in the Krasovsky orphanage, he was unable to find Nikolay and met him only in 1955.

Asteroid 4286 Rubtsov was named after him.