Nikolay Pogodin was born on November 16, 1900 in village Gundorovskaya, Donetsk Okrug, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Donetsk, Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for
Cossacks of the Kuban (1950),
Prisoners (1936) and
Tayga zolotaya (1937). He died on September 19, 1962 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].