Vladilen Mashkovtsev

Vladilen Ivanovich Mashkovtsev (September 26, 1929 – April 24, 1997) was a Russian poet, writer and journalist. He wrote 15 books published in the Urals and in Moscow.

Biography Vladilen Mashkovtsev was born on September 26, 1929, in Tyumen, Ural Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (now Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation). His father worked as a people's judge.

During the Great Patriotic War, Mashkovtsev studied at the Kurgan Aviation School of Pilots.

In 1947, he arrived in Magnitogorsk, worked as a toolmaker at the repair and mechanical plant of the trust "Magnitostroi".

Mashkovtsev's first publications in the Magnitogorsk press were in 1955. In 1960, his first book of poetry was published in the Chelyabinsk Book Publishing House.

In 1967 he graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

He died on April 24, 1997, in Magnitogorsk.