About the life and creative path of the Ural poet Alexei Reshetov. For most of his conscious life, he worked as an electrician at one of the potash mines in the city of Berezniki. There he began to write poetry and publish a little, first in local newspapers, then in Perm and Yekaterinburg. He never lived to see the glory of the capital and great regalia, but he managed to exert a strong influence on the spiritual development of several generations of local residents.