Fedor Samokhin

Fedor Samokhin, born on February twelfth, nineteen eighteen, was a prominent Soviet-Kyrgyz writer, journalist, and translator. He became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR in nineteen fifty-eight and played a pivotal role in the development of lieutenant and village prose within Kyrgyz literature.

His literary journey began with the publication of his first book, The Boy from Stalingrad (Mal'chik iz Stalingrada) in nineteen fifty-four. This work, which depicted the experiences of the evacuated population from the western regions of the Soviet Union during the Eastern Front, earned him the First Degree Prize from the Central Committee of the Komsomol and the Union of Writers of Kyrgyzstan. However, it later faced criticism in the press of the Kyrgyz SSR for its perceived ideological shortcomings.

Samokhin's landmark work, Cholponbai (nineteen fifty-eight), focused on the life of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Cholponbai Tuleberdiev. Published by the Kyrgyz State Publishing House and Molodaya Gvardiya, this book is regarded as a significant contribution to the battle genre in Kyrgyz literature. It was later revised into a sketch titled Krov'yu serdtsa (Bleeding Heart) and included in the collection Young Heroes of the Great Patriotic War (Molodye geroi Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyny) in nineteen seventy.

His final work on military themes, Homeland, I'll Be Back! (Rodina, ya vernus'!) published in nineteen seventy-five, tells the poignant story of Soviet schoolchildren kidnapped by the Nazis as they seek a way to return home.