Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bulatov. children's writer, folklorist. Author of retellings of Russian folk tales "Teremok", "Fox with a rolling pin", "Masha and the Bear" and many others, fairy tales of the peoples of the USSR, fairy tales of Charles Perrault (1936), creator of the books: "Geese-Swans" (1937), "Mountain gems "(1957)," Thirty-three pies "(1962), etc.
His first literary "work" was a diary he wrote in three days, when childhood researchers came to the school where he studied in search and purchase of schoolchildren's diaries. This happened shortly after the publication in 1927 of the famous book by N. Ognev "The Diary of Kostya Ryabtsev" in 1927 and determined his profession. Bulatov did not finish school, starting to work for Moscow region and Moscow newspapers. When the Detgiz publishing house of books for children was created in Moscow, Bulatov began to cooperate with him, many of his books were published by this publishing house. Having become a professional writer for children in the 1930s, Bulatov did not join the Union of Soviet Writers of the USSR. He has been a member of the USSR Literary Fund since 1952.
He didn't mobilized into the army for health reasons, Bulatov volunteered for the people's militia of the Kuibyshevsky district of Moscow. The history of the creation of the Moscow people's militia - on the site "Smolensk 1941". Decommissioned from the militia a few weeks later, Bulatov began to work in the editorial office of the newspaper of the Moscow military district "Red Warrior", to publish notes in other newspapers. In 1942, the publishing house "Pravda" published his books: "Suvorov in folk songs and stories" and "Kutuzov in 1812". For valiant and selfless labor during the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor ..."