Yulja12 Sergey Ivanovich Galkin is the oldest Tula writer, author and compiler of many collections of poetry and prose, a laureate of several literary prizes, whose works are distinguished by thoughtfulness, indifference and adherence to principles, and also made a lot for the formation of young writers.

Seryozha Galkin was born in the distant 1938 in a Tula working-class family. His childhood was during the difficult war years. He lost his father early, who died at the front. About the literature at first did not think much, I wanted to get a "real man's profession", able to support the family. Therefore, after graduating from the Stalinogorsk Mining and Construction College, he worked on the construction of mines and a metallurgical plant.