The next exhibit of the month took place on June 12, 2025. The hero of today's exhibit of the month is the diary of the writer and publicist Dmitry Vasilyevich Oskin. This year, the poet turns 95.
This diary is not just a notebook with yellowed pages and careless handwriting, it is a kind of time capsule in which the experiences, thoughts and doubts of the man who built the Kazakhstan Magnitka and became a chronicler of this era are frozen. Its pages are written densely, hastily, as if the author was afraid that the flow of thoughts would slip away if he slowed down even for a moment.
Almost every resident of the city of Temirtau and the Karaganda region knows the name of D.V. Oskin, a writer, poet, publicist. He was born in 1930 in the village of Tranovo, Klepikovsky district, Ryazan region. He worked as a lumberjack, a locomotive stoker, a bricklayer, and a builder. In 1959, he came to the construction of the Kazakhstan Magnitka and stayed there forever. Then, working as a bricklayer at the construction site, he constantly kept a diary, writing down everything that seemed most significant and weighty. D. Oskin's first poems were published in the newspaper "Komsomolets Karagandy" in 1959.
Temirtau city and the Kazakhstan Magnitka played an important role in his development as a writer. Since 1972, he has worked as a correspondent for the newspaper "Builder" of the "Kazmetallurgstroy". His first book "I See the Sun" was published by the Moscow publishing house "Young guards" in 1964.
All his work is dedicated to the residents of Temirtau - the builders of Magnitka. The construction of Magnitka is described in an interesting and fascinating way in his book “Kazakhstan Magnitka – My Cradle”; the entire history of the plant’s construction, from the first driven stake to the launch of the powerful plant, passes before the eyes of the inquisitive reader.
