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Poet, author of many popular songs, actor. Born into a wealthy family. But in the 1930s, the new government nationalized all property. In 1935 he entered the theatrical studio of Alexei Dikoy at the VTsSPS theater. In 1937 he was admitted to the theater school of the acting troupe of the Central Theater of the Red Army, Alexei Popov. He played in performances, toured with the theater on the remote garrisons of the Far East. In the period from 1937 to 1940, according to colleagues from the Central Theater of the Red Army, he was one of the best actors. In May 1940 he was drafted into the army service, where he actively participated in the amateur art activities of the regiment, and three months later he was appointed director of the District Ensemble of the Oryol Military District. At this time, published his first poems and essays. The beginning of the war was found by the ensemble in the Seshcha airborne garrison near Bryansk. In the first months, Alexei Fatyanov toured the positions of the Bryansk Front with concerts and wrote a report demanding that he be sent to the army, but the ensemble leadership refused. In February 1942, the ensemble was assigned to the rear city of Chkalov (now Orenburg). At this time, Fatyanov met with the composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedym, the creative union with which played a big role in the life of the poet. Their collaboration “Talyanka” (“On a Sunny Meadow ...”) became truly popular among soldiers. In June 1944 he was seconded to the Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble of the USSR to the post of head of the literary and dramatic section. Since September 1944 - front-line correspondent of the army newspaper "To defeat the enemy." In December 1944, during the assault on the city of Szekesfehervara (Hungary), he was wounded (secondly), awarded the medal “For Courage”. In April 1945, he was seconded to Tallinn at the disposal of the ensemble of Baltic sailors. He performed in dramatization, read poetry, and was engaged in directing. In February 1946, he was demobilized from the army. After 1946, 18 films were released with songs on the verses of Fatyanov. Post-war songs, such as “Nightingales”, “Where are you, my garden?”, “First thing, first thing airplanes”, “A brass band plays in the city garden”, “Silence behind Rogozhskaya Zastava”, “We haven't been home for a long time were ”,“ Where are you now, fellow friends? ”, artless and melodic, based on folklore traditions, they sound in all popular films (“ Wedding with a Dowry ”,“ Soldier Ivan Brovkin ”,“ Ivan Brovkin on the virgin lands ”,“ The house I live in ”) and gained great popularity. Suddenly died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.