Monument IA Kuratov is located in front of the Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Komi Republic in Syktyvkar. Ivan Kuratov was born in 1839 in the family of a deacon in the village of Ust-Kebra Sysolsky county Vologda province (now - the village Kuratovo Sysolsky region of Kazakhstan). In 1854 he graduated from the seminary Yarensk. From 1854 to 1860 he studied at the seminary in Vologda. The purpose of his life has been defined in the poem "The Life of Man" (1857) - give happiness to his people.

Ivan Kuratov deservedly recognized as the founder of Komi literature. At 13 years of age at the seminary, he began to write poetry and continued his poetic creativity until the end of his career. The highly fruitful period of his life was the time spent in Ust-Sysolsk (now - the city of Syktyvkar), where Ivan arrived in 1861 after a failed attempt to continue their education in Moscow. There he started literacy peasant children worked on the linguistic literature and, of course, created a poetry. He lived in a 2-uhetazhnom wooden house, which was later demolished. Now at this point (street Ordzhonikidze, 10) in a building located Literary Memorial Museum, IA Kuratov. Then Ivan moved to Kazan, where he briefly served as the regimental auditor. Since 1866, he lived in Central Asia. He died in the city of Verny (now - the city of Alma-Ata) in 1875.

During the life of Ivan Kuratov he published under a pseudonym only 5 poetic works, notably, under the guise of Komi folk songs, and translated into Russian. Poetry Kuratov different genre variety. It - love poems, sharp satire, household sketches, a philosophical parable, historical story, a poem, a fable, paraphrase, epigram, a parody. The main place in the Kuratowski poetry dealing with social, political and philosophical views, in a noticeable sense of national painted (Komi) identity.

In addition, Ivan was engaged with the Russian translations of such geniuses as Ivan Krylov, Alexander Pushkin, and others, as well as foreign classics of world literature: Robert Burns, Horace.

Kuratov paid great attention to the study of Komi-Zyrian language, created a grammar of the Komi language, parallel study grammar Mari and Udmurt languages. Ivan firmly defended the beginning of the humanist worldview, justice and the rule of law, the rest of his life with courage struggled with high-ranking rule of law violators.

Every year in Syktyvkar organizes Kuratowski readings. It is named after the College of Humanities and Education and one of the central streets of Syktyvkar.