Born in 1904 in the village of Bystryanskoye (now the Altai Territory) in the family of a rural clerk. From September 1922, on the appointment of the Biysk UONO, he worked as the head of the Sailai one-complete school. From 1922 to 1930 he taught at elementary schools in the villages and villages of the Altai province and Zapsibkrai. Then he moved to Tomsk, but soon, due to his daughter's illness, he was forced to work as a teacher of the Russian language and literature at a school for peasant youth in the village of Varyukhino, Tomsk region. In 1931 P.K. Zhivotikov entered the philological faculty of the Tomsk Industrial Pedagogical Institute; In December 1933, with a group of students, he was transferred to the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen, from which he graduated in 1934. Upon graduation, he was appointed a teacher at the Ostyako-Vogul Pedagogical College, where he taught Russian, Khanty language and methods. In the fall of 1936, he was transferred as a teacher of the Russian and Khanty languages to the northern teachers' courses at the Tyumen Pedagogical Institute, but after their disbandment in 1938, for one academic year he worked as a school teacher at the Krivoshchekovo station of the Tomsk railway. Then, at the invitation of the Khanty-Mansiysk District, he returned to the North and from August 1939 until the beginning of 1942 worked as a teacher of Russian and Khanty languages in a political education school, a pedagogical school and for about three months as a director of the Surgut secondary school, from where on June 13, 1942 he was drafted into the army. ... Initial military training: from June 1942 to October 1945 he was in the 536th separate line communications battalion of the 39th army as a private, then commander of a communications department. Combat path: fought on the Kalinin, Third Belorussian and Transbaikal fronts. Demobilized in October 1945. Awards: Order of the Badge of Honor; medals "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany." Medal "For Valiant Labor", badge "Excellence in Public Education". After demobilization from February 1946 to August 1947 P.K. Zhiznikov worked as a school instructor in the Tyumen Oblast Regional Office, and then transferred to the apparatus of the Tyumen Regional Committee of the CPSU as an instructor, head of the school sector. 1947-1952 worked as head of the department of propaganda and agitation of the Tyumen regional committee of the CPSU (b), then in 1952-1963. was the rector of the Tobolsk Pedagogical Institute, from 1952-1954. director of the teacher's institute, then from 1954-1963. was the rector of the Pedagogical Institute. Since August 1966 P.K. Zhiznikov went on a well-deserved rest. He spent the last years of his life in Novosibirsk, died on June 6, 1970.
