Fedor Samokhin
Fedor Ivanovich Samokhin (; 12 February 1918 – 17 July 1992) was a Soviet prose writer, journalist, translator, member of the Union of writers of the USSR (since 1958). One of the representatives of "village" and "lieutenant" prose. The oldest Russian writer of Kyrgyzstan, whose works reflect the life of the people of the republic, its history and modernity. For his achievements in the field of fiction and for his active participation in the promotion and development of Kyrgyz Soviet literature, he was awarded three Honorary Diplomas of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR. The author of a number of works of fiction about the Great Patriotic War, the most famous of which was the novel "Cholponbai" about the feat of Hero of the Soviet Union Cholponbai Tuleberdiev, which was reprinted several times. The second edition of the story in the publishing house "Mektep" was digitized in 2019 by the Osh Regional Library named after Toktogul Satylganov, and in 2020 it was included in the section of materials from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic. Some of Samokhin's books are kept in the world's leading libraries, including the British Library and Harvard