Pyotr Koshel

In 1978 he was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers. 1982—1995 — Lead Editor of the Soviet Writer Publishing House, oversaw the translated poetry of Ukraine, Belarus and North Caucasus. Compiled by the Moscow «Poetry Day—1983».

From 1973 to 1978 he studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in the seminar of the poet Evgeny Vinokurov. As the critic recalls Vyacheslav Ogryzko, the literary critic Vadim Kozhinov at that time claimed in «Literaturnaya gazeta» that there are six poets in Russia: Alexey Prasolov, Nikolai Rubtsov, Vladimir Sokolov, Yuri Kuznetsov, Oleg Chukhontsev and Pyotr Koshel. The purse was then the author of the famous poem «The door opens, the father enters ...».

Born in the town of Slutsk. During the war, Pyotr Koshel's father was a partisan, after the war he worked as a station attendant in Slutsk. In 1952, the family left Belarus for Sakhalin. They lived in the village Smirnykh, on the river Poronai, in dugout, in difficult conditions. He began to publish in his school years in regional newspapers. Graduated from one course Sakhalin State University. At the age of 18 he moved to the mainland, lived in Siberia, Moldova, Baltic. He worked at an automobile plant, was engaged in advertising, mentored in a village school in Mogilev region.

Pyotr Ageevich Koshel (April 20 1946, Slutsk, Minsk Region, Belorussian SSR, USSR) — Russian writer, historian and translator.