Poet. Solouhin was born on June 14, 1924 in the village of Alepino Vladimirsky into a peasant family.  Solouhin studied at the Engineering School from 1938 to 1942 and graduated as a specialist in mechanics.  Solouhin served in Moscow, as part of the team that protected the Kremlin, during World War II.  In 1946 his poems were published in the youth journal Komsomolskaya Pravda.  In 1951 Solouhin graduated from the A.M. Gorky Institute of Literature.  In 1953 his first collection of poetry appeared Rains in the Steppe. 

In 1955 Solouhin turned to prose, and a book appeared The Birth of Zernograd.  Throughout the 1950s until the 1970s Solouhin produced books of poetry and prose, as well as participating in literary journals.   Solouhin died in Moscow on April 5, 1997