In the late thirties Aleksin's poems were published in a children's newspaper, Pionerskaya Pravda.
In 1950 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies and his first novel Thirty one day (Тридцать один день) was published.
He was a chairman of the Russian Federation Union of Writers from 1970 to 1989 and a member of the editorial board in of the literature journal Yunost.
He also wrote the book titled "Secret of the Yellow House".
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