Boris Yakovlevich Yampolsky was born in 1921 in Astrakhan; in 1929 the family moved to Saratov. Immediately after graduating from school, he was arrested “for anti-Soviet activities” and sentenced to 10 years under Article 58, paragraphs 10, 11. After serving his sentence in the Northern Urals in Bazstroylag, he went to settle in a newly built village, later - the city of Karpinsk. He worked as an artist at cultural centers, cinemas, and in the Yaroslavl restoration workshop. In 1961, he was rehabilitated “for lack of evidence of a crime” and returned to Saratov. In 1971, in connection with the case of samizdat and dismissal from work after the article “At the Pillory” in the regional newspaper Kommunist, he left for Petrozavodsk. Currently lives in St. Petersburg. He has been interested in literature since his school years. After his release in 1951, he wrote stories about the people who surrounded him in the camp. In 1971, the already completed manuscript was stolen, presumably, by members of the Saratov KGB. Her fate is still unknown.