Writers of East Kazakhstan
Ivanov Anatoly Stepanovich ( 1928-1999) - journalist, writer, screenwriter, born May 5, 1928 in the city of Shemonaikha East Kazakhstan region . The first story "Rain" was published in the magazine "Peasant Woman" in 1954. Author of the novels "Povitel" (1958), "Shadows Disappear at Noon" (1963), which in 1971 was made into a television film of the same name. The novels "Eternal Call" (1963-1975), "Life on Sinful Earth" (1971), "Enmity" (1979) are based on events in Uba and
Irtysh villages during the years of the first revolution, collectivization, the Great Patriotic War and in the post-war period. In the novels about the formation of Soviet power in the Rudny Altai "Shadows Disappear at Noon" and "Eternal Call", the prototype of the village of Shantara is native village, now the city - Shemonaikha. Honorable Sir Ust-Kamenogorsk city .