Anton Makarenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anton Makarenko

Russian and Soviet educator and writer

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1888

Place of Birth: Bilopillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Apr-1939

Profession: educator, pedagogue, non-fiction writer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko (Russian: ????´? ????????? ????´?????, 13 January 1888 – 1 April 1939) was a Russian and Soviet educator, social worker and writer, the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union who promoted democratic ideas and principles in educational theory and practice.
As one of the founders of Soviet pedagogy, he elaborated the theory and methodology of upbringing in self-governing child collectives and introduced the concept of productive labor into the educational system.
Makarenko is often reckoned among the world's great educators, and his books have been published in many countries.In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution he established self-supporting orphanages for street children — including juvenile delinquents — left orphaned by the Russian Civil War.
Among these establishments were the Gorky Colony and later the Dzerzhinsky labor commune in Kharkov, where the FED camera was produced.
Makarenko wrote several books, of which The Pedagogical Poem (?????????????? ?????), a fictionalized story of the Gorky Colony, was especially popular in the USSR.
In 1955 a movie with English title Road to Life was produced.