Maryenko Efrem Mikhailovich

(9.II.1898, with. Kasplya Porechsky district of Smolensk province - 13.VII.1977, Smolensk)
Born into a poor peasant family in 6 years, lost his father, in 9 - Mother. After graduating from a rural elementary school, began working with the regional office messenger, a scribe in Smolensk provincial presence of Peasant Affairs. External students passed the exam for the 6 classes of secondary school Smolensky (1915), in 1916. was drafted into the army, took part in the 1 st World War. After the revolution, demobilized and returned to the Smolensk region, worked in Kasplyanskom volispolkome. In 1918, Mr.. went to the Red Army.

The first play "Victim idea" written in 1919. for Krasnoarmeiskii theater, the play was a success and in Smolensk. In 1924, Mr.. demobilized, and since 1925. Smolensk in magazines and newspapers are beginning to appear regularly to his stories and essays about the Civil War and the Smolensk countryside. Firmly entrenched in the repertoire of amateur clubs of his play "On the high road," "At the turn". In the early 30-ies. M. creates a story about the civil war in the North "Notes kraskoma". In 1937, Mr.. illegally repressed. During the Great Patriotic War, fought on the Karelian Front, was seriously wounded and bruised.
Vol.: Far away from the big cities, 1949; Childhood Alyosha Bobrov, 1953; on earth Smolensk, 1957, Golden Wedding, 1959.