Ivan Andreevich Polonik began writing in adulthood. He does not have a literary education, but he has a soul that demanded an outburst. He never wrote for the general public, but only for himself. But in his declining years, and he was born in 1944, he had a desire to share his creativity. He lived most of his life in the taiga outback, absorbing all the delights of such a life. He is from the common people, lived among such people and writes about such people.