"Inconceivably short life flash": experience of Namzhil Nimbuev's literary biography

The article presents a version of the literary biography of the Buryat Russian-speaking poet Namzhil Nimbuev (1948-1971). The author shows the biography stages - childhood, father's role in formation of the future poet's personality, the beginning of creativity, studies at the Gorky Literary Institute, early death - and reflects on significance of the poet's legacy for several generations of readers. According to the author, important conditions for creating the poet's biography are the origins of creativity, moments explaining the bilingualism of the Russian-speaking national poet, materials of an epistolary nature, as well as the memories of the poet's relatives and friends, critical articles and responses. The main requirement is still the reflection of the character, personality, aesthetic ideas in the work of the poet who died so early and left a grateful memory in the readers' minds.