Liya
Mahmudovna Sharifzhanova (Mishkina)

Pen name - Leah Mishkin, member of d/W section of IHO writers ' Union of Russia and ASHI, member of the Union of journalists of Russia and the Union of artists of Moscow Union of artists. A longtime active member of the "Club Children's Writers", a club of women writers Moskovityanka, Club "ARS" and "1/2" - Union of Architects, the "club of lovers of graphics", a member of the Democratic party since its founding.

A Native Of Tashkent. I live in Moscow since 1978. Early left an orphan. Worked, studied at night school. Since childhood drew, wrote poems, acted in the drama club.

Since school years he contributed to magazines: children's - "huncha", female - "Saodat", the satirical "Mustum", "Reporter", "star of the East", publishing houses "Gafur Gulam", "Teacher", "Pravda Vostoka".

Entered the Institute of architecture, which after the third year and left to become a student of the newly opened Art Institute, from which he graduated, majoring in design and illustration books. Participated in numerous exhibitions. Known in Central Asia as the first and only woman cartoonist and art Director on television. My cartoons were popular in the republics, published in Moscow.

After graduation he worked in the state: in the newspaper "pioneer East", then in the journal "Guliston", on television, taught at the Institute, collaborated with publishing houses, published in the "Crocodile". In Moscow he graduated from the faculty of painting and drawing at the Correspondence University of Arts, studied with Stella Matveevna Manizer, collaborated on the "Filmstrip", "Agitplakat", in magazines and book publishing houses, he became a correspondent of "Crocodile".

School years writing poetry, prose, notes, essays, 1999 attend seminars children's writers of the Novel Seth in the Literary Institute. Recent publications of my poems and short stories in the children's magazine "Kukumber", in the magazine "Soberness and culture", (with illustrations by the author), in Chelyabinsk almanac "Meeting 2" - short story published and on the Internet. On the site of a literary salon "Magistral" there is a page with my poems. Published "memories of meetings with Anastasia Tsvetaeva" in Vologda in the "Chronograph" printed poems. In my "literary portfolio" - poems, novels, stories, essays, a Novella "Peredelkino", which is waiting for a publisher.

(Source: website of the Ministry of agriculture)