Centuries have passed since the first landing of the Cossacks. How times and customs have changed is known from documentary sources. No less interesting are the traces left in the literary works and biographies of Russian classics.
This is where “Prisoner of the Caucasus” comes from.
Pushkin was the first of the greats to visit the Cossack region. He passed through the lands of the Black Sea Army in 1820. In a letter to his brother he wrote: “I saw the shores of the Kuban and the guard villages, admired our Cossacks: always on horseback, always ready to fight, in eternal precaution.”
The nature and history of the region inspired Alexander Sergeevich to create the poem “Prisoner of the Caucasus.” The hero is surrounded by “monotonous plains,” four mountains, “the last branch of the Caucasus.” In the epilogue, addressing the Muse, Pushkin says that she “will tell the story of distant countries - Mstislav’s ancient duel.” Prince Tmutarakan Mstislav, chronicles testify, defeated the Kasozh prince Rededya in single combat. And the Kasogs are the ancestors of modern Circassians.
The Decembrists found their last “shelter” in Kuban
The Decembrist, creator of the almanac “Polar Star”, Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, visited our area more than once. After well-known events, he received 20 years of hard labor, and in 1829 he was exiled as a private to the Caucasus. Killed in battle near Adler in 1837.
Another Decembrist poet, Odoevsky, risked his life in battles with the highlanders, who wrote a response to Pushkin’s “Message to Siberia.” The line from the poem: “From a spark a flame will ignite” has become popular. The poet and citizen was buried in the village of Lazarevskoye.
Lermontov was robbed in Taman
In 1837, cornet Lermontov arrived in Kuban. He was sent to the active army for the poem “The Death of a Poet.” I visited Ekaterinodar, Kopyl (Slavyansk-on-Kuban), Temryuk... In Taman I experienced an extraordinary adventure described in the story of the same name. Local smugglers actually stole his money and documents. Writers don't have personal tragedies. With a light pen, he glorified the Kuban village throughout the reading world.
In general, the “literary pioneers” portrayed Kuban as a wild and dangerous land. But at the same time - intoxicatingly beautiful.
Uspensky was shocked by the workers of the tobacco plantations
Gleb Uspensky, author of the book “Morals of Rasteryaeva Street,” made a special trip to the Kuban region in 1886. He noted: “What in Russia needs to be studied in individual regions of Great Russia, Little Russia, Volyn or the Kazan Tatar region - all this can be seen here, as if in samples, grouped ... as if in a museum.”
There were also unpleasant impressions. In Yekaterinodar, the writer was shocked by the “women’s market” - a spontaneous “labor exchange” for hiring on tobacco plantations.
“At the local bazaar, from early morning, there is already a thousand-strong crowd of these slaves, offering their hands for sale and forced to give away for free everything that the numerous administrators of the tobacco production desire.”
Gorky worked as a watchman, a loader, and a helper on a threshing machine.
Gorky continued the theme of the common man - and also based on personal experiences. In 1891, the wanderer Alexei Peshkov came on foot from Nizhny Novgorod. He was detained for vagrancy.
“I was sitting in a newly built prison, from the window I saw across the river, in the field, a lot of geese - a very beautiful picture!” - he wrote.
Gorky earned his bread wherever he could. In the village of Khanskaya I met an acquaintance named Maslov. He worked on a thresher for the wealthy Cossack Nikhotin and became a patronage. The future classic was taken into service. Maslov died when he fell under a thresher, and the writer witnessed this. The shock he experienced was described in the story “Two Tramps.”
A year later he ended up in Crimea and returned to Kuban by shore. And again he worked as a laborer, worked as a loader, was a watchman, a dishwasher... On Taman he went to sea with fishermen. In the summer of 1892, there was crushed stone on the Novorossiysk-Sukhumi highway, which was under construction near Gelendzhik. Observations of life in the Kuban villages were embodied in the stories: “My Companion”, “Strangers”, “Grandfather Arkhip and Lenka”...
Contemporaries reproached: they exaggerate the colors, use a black palette. But the authors recorded exactly what they saw with their own eyes.
Chekhov looked around Kuban from the sea
In July 1888, the writer Chekhov arrived in Kuban. He was going to Yalta, but succumbed to the persuasion of his older brother. Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov served as secretary of Novorossiysk customs. He also dabbled in writing and conceived a book called “City of the Future.”
Anton Pavlovich took a sea cruise along the shores of the Kuban. He described his impressions as follows: “Nature is amazing to the point of madness and despair. Everything is new, fabulous, stupid and poetic. Eucalyptus trees, tea bushes, cypress trees, cedars, palm trees, donkeys, swans, buffaloes, gray cranes, and most importantly - mountains, mountains and mountains, endlessly and endlessly.”
Visual and emotional impressions are reflected in the story “Duel”. And also in the story “The Lady”: “And how good Kuban is! If you believe the letters of Uncle Peter, then what a wonderful freedom on the Kuban steppes! And life there is wider, and the summer is longer, and the people are more remote.”
Korolenko was relaxing at his dacha in Dzhanhot
It is curious that at the same time Kuban was discovered by the great publicist Vladimir Korolenko. And his younger brother Illarion connected him with our region.
At one time he was a famous person. He was persecuted by the secret police for his revolutionary activities and was imprisoned, where his health was severely damaged. His elder brother built a dacha for him in Dzhankhot. And starting from 1900, he came every summer and wrote his most famous stories and essays there, as well as the story “Without a Language.”
All the “stars” came to Kuban during the Civil War
The work of many writers is associated with Kuban in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The author of “Cement” Fyodor Gladkov began publishing in the “Kuban Regional Gazette” while still a student at the Ekaterinodar sixth-grade school.
During the Civil War, Kuban became a refuge for wordsmiths who fled in search of a quiet life. Margarita Shaginyan, Samuil Marshak, Valery Bryusov lived and worked here... The fratricidal war also consumed our region. What was happening, of course, was reflected in creativity.
In 1920, sketches of “The Iron Stream” appeared in the notebooks of Pravda correspondent Alexander Serafimovich:
"Division. Desperate fighters. They were retreating from the Taman Peninsula. Tired after three years. Each person has four or five pots (that is, he cut down 4-5 heads). Poorly dressed. Sometimes there are only pants and torn shoes, and the torso is naked. He girds himself, puts on a bandoleer over his naked body, and thrusts a revolver. War is already a craft.”
The story of the Cossacks of the Taman Peninsula, told by the writer, is called “an epic fresco of the Civil War.”
Mayakovsky loved dogs
Vladimir Mayakovsky performed in Krasnodar in 1926 at the Mon Plaisir cinema and in the club of the pedagogical institute. By the way, the performance was sold out. The poet arrived from the capital to the south in February and was extremely amazed by the heat of the Kuban sun. I walked around the city a lot and was interested in architecture.
“Occasionally Mayakovsky raises his cane, shows, asks for an explanation... “When was this building built? What fits here? Having received an answer, he nods his head with satisfaction,” recalled Leonid Lench, a correspondent for the Kuban newspaper “Red Banner,” who accompanied the poet on walks around Krasnodar. - If I can’t answer, he frowns with displeasure: “You live in this city and don’t know. Not good!"
At one of those concerts, the poet admitted to the audience that he was writing a poem about Krasnodar. True, he didn't read it. Months later, the Kuban public read in the Krasnaya Niva magazine: “This is not a dog’s wilderness, but a dog’s capital!”
“...Mayakovsky’s charming, humorous poem about Krasnodar,” explains Leonid Lench, “shows his rare powers of observation. There really were a lot of dogs in Krasnodar. The dogs were different and good. The whole city knew St. Bernard Dr. P., who, St. Bernard, walked importantly around the city, businesslikely looking into shops, institutions and even theaters during performances. Mayakovsky loved dogs and noticed this Krasnodar peculiarity.”
“Chapaev”, “Destruction” and “How the Steel Was Tempered” began here
In the same year, Dmitry Furmanov, the head of the political department of the IX Kuban Army, who hatched the “Chapaev” plan, was shell-shocked in Kuban.
Here Alexander Fadeev began writing “Destruction”.
Nikolai Ostrovsky, who settled in Sochi in 1927, wrote the book “How the Steel Was Tempered”, which educated more than one generation of Soviet schoolchildren...
During the Great Patriotic War, Konstantin Simonov, Arkady Perventsev, Vitaly Zakrutkin and other military chroniclers visited Kuban.
The rich land has nurtured many of its own talents. But it entered the history of world literature precisely thanks to the classics... Those who visited Kuban, lived and worked here.
Prose writer, member Union writers Russia , laureate literary awards them . M . N . Alekseeva , gentleman Golden orders « Behind service art »
Born on December 18, 1963 in the village of Novopokrovskaya. To the Krasnodar Music College named after. N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Svetlana Makarova entered after graduating from the Novopokrovsk children's music school in the accordion class. In my third year at school, I wrote my first stories, “On the Ocean Shore” and “On the Trolleybus.” They were published in the September and November issues of the Kuban magazine for 1986. In the same year, Makarova became a participant in the regional seminar of young writers. Her stories received the approval of the seminar leaders, among whom were the leading writers of Kuban - Viktor Likhonosov, Viktor Loginov, Yuri Abdashev, Yuri Salnikov. Studying at the Faculty of Philology of Kuban State University coincided with the birth of her daughters. After graduating from the university, she worked as a teacher at the music school of the Interschool Aesthetic Center in Krasnodar. For more than ten years the name of the young prose writer did not appear on the pages of the press.
Makarova recalls with gratitude how, back in 1997, Vitaly Bakaldin, editor of the Literary Kuban newspaper, published her story “Lenka,” which was highly praised by St. Petersburg critic Oleg Shestinsky. Subsequently, “Laces for Goshka”, “Parachutist”, “Winter Evening” and other stories were published there. The first book, “Birds from a Flock of Turmans,” was published in 2001. It included stories and poems, many of which became songs. « Prose Svetlana Makarova multi-colored. A musician herself by first profession, she caught the different tones of Russian speech, weaving them into a unique national ornament. But her stories from folk life are not popular pictures, but rather an accurate reproduction of reality, with speculation and fantasy. At the same time, Svetlana Makarova is not a dictator; in her texts, she leaves room for readers to imagine and participate in the plot.”, - this is how Nikolai Ivenshev, a famous prose writer and laureate of All-Russian prizes, responded to the writer’s work.
Her stories, short stories, and essays were published in the magazines “Our Contemporary”, “Roman Magazine 21st Century”, “Bronze Horseman”, “Countrymen”, “Don”, “Kuban”, newspapers “Literary Russia”, “Russian Writer”, regional literary publications. She is a participant in the All-Russian Seminar of Young Writers, held in Peredelkino in 2004. Delegate to the 12th and 13th congresses of the Union of Writers of Russia; participant of the World Russian People's Councils, held annually in Moscow, participant of many plenums.
Makarova, in her own way, with an intonation unique to her, knows how to talk about the labyrinths of a big city and the life of the rural hinterland, tell a secret about what young mothers talk about in the story “A Cozy Courtyard, a Quiet Window,” and tenderly caress the old grandmother from the story "Winter evening". She makes us think why careerist Lyudmila, the heroine of the story “Aunt Peggy’s Flowers,” never became happy, and what exactly made Anna, an employee of the cultural sector, from the story “Laces for Goshka” spiritually reborn...
The creativity of Svetlana Nikolaevna Makarova, with all its diversity, is united by one feature - an optimistic perception of the world. She does not close her eyes to the dark sides of life, but firmly believes in the harmonious balance of all things on Earth. Just as minor and major have equal rights in music, so in the human soul joy and sadness always accompany each other. A sense of humor and effortless artistry are her natural traits, which could not help but be reflected in her work.
Svetlana Nikolaevna is a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, laureate of the Literary Prize named after. M. N. Alekseeva, holder of the Golden Order “For Service to Art”, secretary of the Writers' Union of Russia. Since May 2004, he has headed the regional writers' organization. She is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Kuban Writer", established by the regional writers' organization, and the almanac "Literary Krasnodar".
The writer's books were published in Moscow and Krasnodar.
Literature about the life and work of S. N. Makarova
Biryuk L. Svetlana Makarova’s Appian Way / L. Biryuk // Kuban writer. – 2013. – No. 11 (November). – P. 6.
Koloskov A. Milestones of creative destiny / A. Koloskov // Kuban today. – 2014. – January 11. – P. 5.
Koloskov A. Reports from the village and the capital / A. Koloskov // Kuban today. – 2014. – October 9. – P. 11.
Sakhanova K. Returning from the writers' congress... / K. Sakhanova // Kuban today. – 2013. – November 2. – P. 4.
Semenova I. Svetlana Makarova. Her path and her choice / I. Semenova // Free Kuban. – 2013. – December 19. – P. 22.
Miroshnikova Lyubov Kimovna
Poet, member of the Russian Writers' Union,
member of the board of the Krasnodar branch of the Russian Writers' Union,
head of the socio-cultural center at St. Catherine's Cathedral,
laureate of the third International competition
children's and youth book named after A. N. Tolstoy
Born in 1960 in Krasnodar, in a family of workers. From early childhood, the girl loved to sing. From first to tenth grade she studied at secondary school No. 1. Her first teacher was Lydia Slepokurova, who noticed the makings of poetic talent in her student. Lyubov Kimovna wrote her first poem in first grade.
Once again, poetry came to Lyubov Kimovna in earnest unexpectedly: her first attempts at writing in the genre of poetic creativity were intended for her children. Miroshnikova's poems were noticed by the famous Kuban poet, member of the USSR Writers' Union Vadim Nepoba and invited her to work on the release of the first collection of poems for children.
In 1989, Miroshnikova took part in the Forum of Young Poets of Kuban for the first time and became its diploma winner. In 1990, her poems for children were noted at the regional seminar for aspiring writers, and in 1991 they were first published in the Kuban almanac. In the same year, she passed a creative competition and entered the Moscow Literary Institute. Gorky, where in a poetry seminar her mentor is the Lenin Komsomol Prize laureate, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Russians”, poet Vladimir Ivanovich Firsov. In 1992, the Krasnodar Book Publishing House published the first collection of poems for children, “Who Should Be a Sparrow?”
On April 27, 1996, as part of the work of the Secretariat of the Board of the Union of Writers of Russia, a seminar of young poets and prose writers of Kuban was held, which became significant for the poet Lyubov Miroshnikova. A recommendation to join the ranks of the Russian Writers' Union was given to her by the well-known writer Vladimir Krupin in Russia and abroad, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Literary Russia" writer Vladimir Bondarenko, as well as the Kuban poets V. Nepoba, S. Khokhlov, M. Tkachenko and the writer A. Martynovsky.
In 1998, the Sovetskaya Kuban publishing house published a collection of poems for children, “The Helper,” which was awarded an Honorary Diploma of the Second International Competition named after A. N. Tolstoy among the best books for children and youth. As a result of this competition, a three-volume book “50 Writers” was published in Moscow, where the poems of Lyubov Miroshnikova were published in the second volume.
In 2013, the Tradition publishing house published another wonderful book of her poems for children, “How the Caterpillar Went to the Theater,” which is in great demand among readers and takes a well-deserved place among the best works for children.
In the poems of the Kuban poetess Lyubov Miroshnikova there is much that is so close to a child’s heart. This is energy, a cheerful, clear rhythm, sonorous rhyme, a funny joke and all kinds of eccentricities.
Lyubov Kimovna's poems for children are small in size: sometimes three or four lines. But they have a deep meaning and each one has a secret.
A chicken poppy found in the grass -
Will not calm down:
- What a bungling cockerel
Lost your comb here?
Lyubov Kimovna, like a kind wizard, paints the world in the brightest colors, finding in her poetic arsenal unusual images and plots that develop children's imagination and creativity.
A star passed across the sky,
She dove straight into the water from above,
And came to life in that river
Magic gold fish.
In a fascinating way, Miroshnikova introduces young readers to the secrets of the natural world. Children will read a lot of new and interesting things on the pages of this funny book. For example, that skates live in the depths of the sea, and fish can talk. In many poems in the collection, the author asks interesting questions: how many drops of rain does a rain have? does it snow in summer? when does a dandelion put on a fur coat? Why is the angry bug buzzing?
The poems of the Kuban poetess will help readers become inquisitive, teach them to understand, appreciate and protect nature. The author encourages you to comprehend the secrets of the Earth, love animals, and be a friend to every blade of grass.
Autumn is a craftswoman
Never lazy
From radiant yarn
Knitting from early dawn
Leaf, berry, fungus -
The solar ball is spinning.
Talking about the colors in which the goose painted the animals' undershirts, the author poetically and figuratively introduces younger children to the colors of the rainbow. He compares the blooming forget-me-nots to a peacock's tail, sees the river in lace rings, the sea like velvet, and the sky in a chintz outfit.
Calico sky.
Velvet Sea.
rustling yellow
Silk sand.
A river rushes to the sea
In lace rings -
Leta silver
Thin belt.
Lyubov Kimovna writes about true friendship, teaches the ability to come to the rescue in difficult times, as did the small but brave sparrow who saved the sunny bunny.
He didn’t even see: he was guarded
Cloud. With the crooked talons of an eagle!
Misfortune could happen.
Then the sparrow took him under its wing -
And he hid in the woodshed with him,
Outwitted the angry cloud.
A sense of humor creates a cheerful, rosy mood. And it is present in many of Miroshnikova’s poems:
With a book about a mouse
The bear was skipping along,
In his left pocket he carried a warm crumpet.
The mouse quietly escaped from the book,
I ate the bear's crumpet to the tiniest bit.
The heroes of Miroshnikova’s works are funny dogs, little birds, hedgehogs and cats, with whom funny stories happen. Here is an elephant walking under an umbrella that only fits one ear, here is a crow looking for its missing car, and here is a would-be postman snail delivering mail.
Kuban composers wrote songs based on Lyubov Kimovna's poems: V. Ponomarev, V. Chernyavsky, I. Korchmarsky. Kuban composer Viktor Ponomarev wrote a cantata based on Miroshnikova’s children’s poem “The Whale and the Note of Salt.”
Reading Orthodox literature and studying at the Orthodox Institute had a huge influence on the poetess. Faith opens up a new vista in understanding life, disciplines feelings, elevating them.
Don't ask. How are you,
What's wrong with me, the funny one?
It has become!
Previously, I only lived on earth,
And now the earth is not enough for me.
In 2001, with the blessing of Metropolitan Isidore of Ekaterinodar and Kuban, a collection of spiritual poems by Lyubov Miroshnikova, “At the Gates of Heaven,” was published. Many poems from this collection became songs thanks to collaboration with the composer Deacon Mikhail (Okolot). They were included in a cycle of songs published on music discs: “The Good Tree”, “Lent by Eternity”. And in 2003, Deacon Mikhail (Okolot’s) song “The Cossack Woman’s Prayer” based on the verses of Lyubov Miroshnikova received the Grand Prix at the International Festival of Orthodox Art Song “Ark” in the city of Voronezh.
The work of Lyubov Kimovna Miroshnikova has long and deservedly enjoyed the love of young readers of regional libraries and the Krasnodar Regional Children's Library named after the Ignatov brothers. Lyubov Kimovna takes part in the implementation of many of her major projects and events to promote books and reading among readers of Kuban. This is also the annual Children's Book Week, which the regional children's library holds with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Krasnodar Territory for pupils of Kuban orphanages. This includes the joint holding of the Decade of Orthodox Books, which was timed to coincide with Orthodox Book Day. The library held the event jointly with the Orthodox Social and Cultural Center of St. Catherine's Cathedral in Krasnodar, headed by L. K. Miroshnikova.
Lyubov Kimovna became one of the participants in the Regional Children's Library project of the art expedition “Spiritual Strongholds of Kuban”, dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Taman.
Literature about the life and work of L. K. Miroshnikova
Drozdova N. Creative hopes of the “heavenly poets” of Russia / N. Drozdova // Kuban writer. – 2010. – No. 4 (April). – P. 4 – 5.
Lyubov Kimovna Miroshnikova // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 120 – 122.
Pashkova T. Wings for the soul of Lyubov Miroshnikova / T. Pashkova // Dawn. – 2010. – September 24 – 30. – P. 3.
Sakhanova K. Returning from the writers' congress... / K. Sakhanova // Kuban today. – 2013. – November 2. – P. 4.
Taranenko Marina Viktorovna
Poet, member of the Writers' Union of Russia, member of the Association of Children's and Youth Writers of Russia, the International Creative Association of Children's Authors, gold laureate of the National Literary Award "Golden Pen of Rus' - 2014", laureate of the 1st degree of the All-Russian festival-competition "Crystal Spring", laureate of the competition " from 7 to 12", winner of the competition "New Fairy Tales - 2014"
Marina Viktorovna was born on August 7, 1978 in the city of Krasnodar. In 2000 she graduated with honors from Kuban State University, Faculty of History, Sociology and International Relations. Works at the State Archives of the Krasnodar Territory as a chief specialist and head of the archives.
Marina Taranenko's passion for literature and love for children found expression in poetic creativity. Her poems for children were published in Murzilka, in the All-Russian weekly literary and entertainment newspaper Shkolnik, in the magazine Shishkin Les, in the Belarusian magazine Ryukzachok, in the Ukrainian magazine Literary Children's World, in the magazines Volga - XXI century”, “Lights of Kuzbass”, in the Krasnodar periodical press: newspapers “Kuban Segodnya”, “Man of Labor”, literary and artistic almanac “Literary Krasnodar”, magazine “Top-baby”.
In 2007, a book of poems for children, “Cleanliness,” was published, in September 2009, a second book, “The Kingdom of Obedience,” was published, and in 2011, a third, “Where People Dangle Their Noses.”
Marina Taranenko’s poems were included in the collection of poems by Russian-speaking authors “If the Wind is Locked Up” (Chelyabinsk) and the collection of poems and fairy tales by the authors of the International Creative Association of Children’s Authors “Rezhimkina Book”.
In 2014, Marina Viktorovna became a Laureate of the All-Russian literary festival-competition “Crystal Spring”, receiving a first degree diploma in the category “Literary Creativity for Children”. The festival was founded by the Russian Writers' Union on the initiative of the Oryol writers' organization. The jury of the competition, which includes famous poets and prose writers from different cities of Russia, unanimously decided to recommend the candidacy of Krasnodar poetess Marina Taranenko for admission to the Union of Writers of Russia.
On October 31, 2014, a solemn ceremony of awarding the laureates of the National Literary Award “Golden Pen of Rus' - 2014” took place at the Central House of Writers in Moscow. Among the laureates of this award in the Children's category was Marina Taranenko. She received a Gold Laureate diploma and won a special prize in the category "Poetry" and "Prose" for works “The Afternoon Tale”, “I am becoming tiny”, “How I got lost” and others.
In February 2014, Marina Viktorovna Taranenko inspired the presentation of the collection of fairy tales “Oh, if only...”, published at the polygraph center in Uzhgorod. This book includes fairy tales by twenty-seven Russian and Ukrainian authors, including the fairy tale “Yesterday” by Marina Taranenko. This presentation was conducted by the Krasnodar Regional Children's Library named after the Ignatov brothers together with the Crimean Central Children's Library at the Lada social rehabilitation center for minors (Krymsk).
It’s safe to say that Marina Taranenko’s rich creative potential will allow her to delight her young readers with new, funny and kind books.
Literature about the life and work of M. V. Taranenko
Taranenko Marina Viktorovna // Kuban Library. – Krasnodar, 2010. – Volume 7: Kuban writers for children. – P. 309.
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nesterenko
Poet, journalist, member of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation,
member of the Union of Journalists, laureate of the Krasnodar Territory Administration award
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nesterenko was born on August 1, 1951 in the village of Bryukhovetskaya, Krasnodar Territory. He graduated from school here in 1968. He entered the philological faculty of the Adygea Pedagogical Institute. In 1973, he received a diploma as a teacher of Russian language and literature and worked in the Donetsk region at a boarding school.
In 1976, the first publications of his poems appeared in newspapers and magazines in Donetsk. In the same year, Vladimir Nesterenko returned to Bryukhovetskaya and has since lived in his native village.
In 1988, he was accepted as a member of the USSR Writers' Union.
Books by Vladimir Dmitrievich Nesterenko were published in Moscow and Krasnodar. His poems are published in various newspapers and magazines, including Murzilka and Pionerskaya Pravda. Funny poems, riddles and tongue twisters from Vladimir Nesterenko were included in the one-volume “Travel with Murzilka”, which contains the best publications of the magazine over its 70-year history.
In addition to poetry, he writes stories, essays, fables, miniatures, and parodies.
Vladimir Nesterenko is a master of short, succinct verse. He is the author of 30 books, his poems are included in anthologies, collections and textbooks on children's literature. In the “I Can Read” series, a manual for primary schoolchildren, “Letter by Letter,” was published, which included his poems.
The main source of warmth and light in the poetry of Vladimir Nesterenko is love for one’s native land, one’s home, and people. The poet's poems are addressed to children.
In the artistic world of Vladimir Dmitrievich, any path far from home should always lead to the home (“Path”), and the best places are “called homeland” (“Quiet Places”).
The poet uses a variety of poetic forms. A favorite genre is the lyrical miniature, which can become a plot poem, a landscape sketch, a riddle poem or a joke, or a game form that has long been loved by children: “tell me a word.”
Poems about the seasons tell about the work of villagers. Their constant concern for bread finds an echo in the hearts of young readers, and their hard work becomes a subject of veneration and respect.
Vladimir Dmitrievich continues the best poetic traditions of Russian children's literature. In 2004, he created his own poetic version of the Russian alphabet - “The ABC in Reverse” and received an award from the regional administration in the field of culture for the book for children “Boots on the wrong foot.” In 2005, a coloring book with the poet’s poems, “The Rooster Calendar,” and a publication dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory, “Front-line Reward,” appeared. For the book “Frontline Award” at the Moscow Book Festival in 2006, Nesterenko received a diploma for the patriotic education of the younger generation.
Vladimir Dmitrievich was awarded the medal “For Labor Distinction” and a diploma from the Second Artiads of Russia art festival.
One of the poet’s last books, “Our Motherland – Kuban,” is beautifully published, wonderfully illustrated, with delicate watercolor landscapes, and a funny and poetic cover. I just don’t want to let go of the book. “I love my small homeland,” the author writes in a short preface, “just as I love my big one, Russia.” And every poem, every line is permeated with this love.
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nesterenko is doing an important job: teaching young readers to poetry, inseparable from folk traditions and true human values.
Bessonova Yu. Why are we drawn to foreign culture? : [Vladimir Nesterenko about books, education and upbringing] / Y. Bessonova // Arguments and facts South. – 2013. – No. 8. – P. 3.
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nesterenko // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 129 – 131.
Rhymed notebook: [a selection of articles about the poet V. D. Nesterenko] // Kuban writer. – 2011. – No. 8. – P. 6.
Shevel A. Kind, bright book: [about the book by Vladimir Nesterenko “Our Friendly Family”] / A. Shevel // Kuban today. – 2013. – No. 4. – P. 4.
Vadim Petrovich Nepodoba
Poet, prose writer, member of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation
Vadim Petrovich Nepoba was born on February 26, 1941 in the family of a military sailor in Sevastopol, which in the first months of the Great Patriotic War became the scene of fierce battles. Vadim's mother and two children managed to leave the city shortly before the fall of the Black Sea fortress on one of the last warships. In the difficult year of 1942, Kuban sheltered them.
Much later, in one of his books, Vadim Nepodoba will write: “Three corners of the earth are especially close to me: lilac-blue Sevastopol, in which I was born just before the war and lived the first year of my life in the fourth sector of defense; the city of Abinsk - the homeland of my parents, the Batkovshchina, which saved my life during the occupation of Kuban, Belorechensk, where we arrived soon after the liberation of those places from the Nazis where we spent our childhood and youth ... "
The first poems of the fifteen-year-old poet were published in 1956 in the regional newspaper Belorechenskaya Pravda. In 1958, Vadim Nepoba, having graduated from high school, studied at the historical and philological faculty of the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute, taught literature and Russian language in rural schools of Kuban. In 1969, Vadim Petrovich returned to Krasnodar, worked in the regional youth newspaper “Komsomolets Kubani”, as a correspondent for the editorial office of rural life of the regional radio.
In 1972, his first book, “Fire Flower,” was published, and in 1975, the poetry collection “Corner of the Earth.”
“A corner of the earth” is what the poet calls his small homeland, where he grew up, learned about the world, studied and worked.
In 1975, Vadim Nepoba became a participant in the VI All-Union Conference of Young Writers. In 1977, after the publication of a new poetry book, “The Thunderstorm Over the House,” by the Moscow publishing house Sovremennik, he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
In 1979, Nepoba entered the Higher Literary Courses at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky in Moscow. After completing the courses, he worked as a literary consultant at the Regional Writers' Organization, and later, for ten years, as an editor at the Krasnodar book publishing house.
Vadim Petrovich Nepodoba participated in the work on the multi-volume “Book of Memory,” which includes lists of Kuban residents who died, died from wounds, and went missing during the Great Patriotic War.
The books “The Core”, “A Handful of Earth”, and collections of poems for children were published in the 1980s. Funny poems about caring for nature, about birds and animals were included in the book “About the Bezymyanka River” and “The Sun Woke Up.” Two stories about the lives of post-war teenagers were included in the collection “Early Frosts”.
On the occasion of the poet’s fiftieth birthday, the collection “Succession” was published, which contained poems and poems from different years. “Palm Morning” is the name of one of the sections of the collection, which includes lyrical poems about Kuban. The poet appears before the reader as a singer of his native land, Kuban nature.
In 1996, the books compiled and edited by him were published: “The Feat of the Kuban Chernobyl Survivors” and “There Are Prophets in Their Fatherland” - about the outstanding surgeon, our contemporary and fellow countryman V. I. Onopriev.
In 2000, Vadim Petrovich’s new collection “Splashes of Pontus Euxine” was published.
Pont Euxine - this is what the ancient Greeks called the Black Sea, who founded the Bosporan kingdom in the Crimea and on the Black Sea coast of the Kuban. The novel is written in the form of memories of the past and reflections on the present.
Vadim Nepoba devoted his entire life to Kuban and the Kuban people. He is the author of two dozen books of poetry and prose for children and adults.
Vladimir Petrovich died in Krasnodar in September 2005.
Literature about life and creativity
Vadim Petrovich Nepodoba // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 123 – 128.
Kuropatchenko A. Incomparable Vadim Incomparable: / A. Kuropatchenko // Krasnodar news. – 2011. – No. 9. – P. 16.
Limarov L. The soul of a poet: [memories of the poet Vadim Nepodob] / L. Limarov // Krasnodar News. – 2009. – No. 9. – P. 7.
Inappropriate Vadim Petrovich // Writers of Kuban: biobibliographic reference book / comp. L. A. Gumenyuk, K. V. Zverev. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P. 103 –105.
Inappropriate Vadim Petrovich // Writers of Kuban for children / resp. per issue V. Yu. Sokolova. – Krasnodar, 2009. – P. 50 – 53.
Oboishchikov K. Poets leave everything to people: / K. Oboishchikov // Dawn. – 2011. – No. 8. – P. 1.
Boris Minaevich
Prose writer, member of the USSR Writers Union
Boris Minaevich Kasparov was born on October 23, 1918 in the city of Armavir. Here he studied at school, was interested in art and sports. After finishing school he was drafted into the Red Army. Boris Minaevich served in Transcaucasia, in the border troops on the border with Turkey. Impressions from what he saw formed the basis of his first book, the historical novel “On the West Bank,” in which he writes about the Cossacks of the Black Sea Army.
The Great Patriotic War found Boris Kasparov in the army. In June 1941, Lieutenant Kasparov took part in battles with the fascist invaders. Boris Minaevich had to go through a lot. He was wounded, shell-shocked, captured, and escaped. He fought against the Nazis in a partisan detachment. After this, he returned to the active army, commanded a mortar unit, and served in regimental reconnaissance.
When Boris Minaevich returned to his native Armavir, his chest was decorated with military awards: the Order of the Red Star, medals “For Courage”, “For the Capture of Warsaw” and others.
Boris Minaevich Kasparov dedicated his first stories: “The End of Nairi”, “Ruby Ring”, “Towards the Sun” to military themes. They were published in the magazine "Soviet Warrior". He submitted these publications to a competition at the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky, where he entered in 1949. After graduating from the institute in 1953, he worked as a literary employee of the newspaper “Soviet Kuban”. His works were published in the magazines “Kuban”, “Around the World”, “Don”, in the newspapers “Sovetskaya Kuban”, “Soviet Armavir”.
Since 1958, his books have been published one after another: “On the West Bank”, “The Road of Blue Stalactites”, “Copy of Durer”, “Twelve Months”, “Equation with Three Zeros”, “Ashes and Sand”, “ Liszt's Rhapsody", "The Stars Shine for All".
In these works, B. M. Kasparov acts as a master of a sharp plot, who knows how to interest the reader.
Kasparov's stories are permeated with ardent love for the Motherland. He wrote about brave, kind and courageous people, true patriots of their Fatherland.
This focus in the writer’s work was clearly manifested in his plays “Memory”, “The Seventh Day”, “Dragon’s Teeth”. In the play "The Seventh Day". Boris Minaevich spoke about the most difficult, first days of the war. His plays were performed with success in the Armavir and Krasnodar drama theaters.
Children's reading included the stories “On the West Bank”, “Dürer's Copy”, “Liszt's Rhapsody”, “Ashes and Sand” and others.
“Copy of Durer” is one of the most famous works of B. M. Kasparov. The story is written so vividly and talentedly that the events described in it are perceived as really happening. In May 1945, in the first post-war days, a young Red Army officer was appointed assistant commandant in a small German town to help local residents establish a peaceful life. But an unpleasant event occurs: the manager of the Grunberg estate shot himself. This man survived the fascist regime, was loyal to Soviet power, and suddenly shot himself when the city was liberated from the Nazis. "Murder or suicide?" – the senior lieutenant asks himself a question and begins his own investigation. The mysterious events associated with a copy of a painting by Albrecht Durer, the great German painter of the Renaissance, cannot but captivate the reader. The plot of the book echoes the real story of the rescue of paintings from the Dresden Gallery and other treasures of world art by Soviet soldiers.
A street in the city of Armavir is named after the writer Boris Minaevich Kasparov.
Literature about life and creativity
Bakaldin V. Boris Minaevich Kasparov / V. Bakaldin // Kasparov B. Two stories / B. Kasparov. – Krasnodar, 1972. – P. 3.
Kasparov Boris Minaevich // Great Kuban Encyclopedia: T. 1: biographical encyclopedic dictionary. – Krasnodar, 2005. – P. 129.
Kasparov Boris Minaevich // Writers of Kuban: biographical reference book / comp. N. F. Velengurin. – Krasnodar, 1970. – P. 16.
Evgeny Vasilievich Shchekoldin
Poet, composer
Evgeniy Vasilyevich Shchekoldin was born on April 23, 1939 in the village of Severskaya, Krasnodar Territory. He spent his childhood in the village of Krymskaya, his great-grandfather was one of the first to cut down a smokehouse there. He has lived in the city of Abinsk for more than half a century.
One of the poet's first childhood memories dates back to the war year of 1943: a Nazi bomb hit the house, and they were left without a roof over their heads. And the most joyful day in life is the return of my father from the war, wounded but alive. And soon the brass band he created began to sound in the village. His father is a conductor of brass bands; he was educated in Tsarist Russia.
Evgeniy followed his father’s path: he graduated from a music school, worked with brass and pop orchestras over the years, taught at a music school, and composed music himself.
Seeing his passion for poetry, his father introduces Evgeny to the wonderful writer - Alexander Pavlovich Arkhangelsky, who had a serious influence on the poetic work of E. V. Shchekoldin. In his poems he writes about our time and about love for his native land. Shchekoldin's poetic lines are musical and simple. Pictures of rural life filled with sounds and smells are reflected in the poems “Rooks”, “Prayer”, “Dog Barbos”, “Russian Mother”, “Springs near the Abinka River”.
You are my springs, springs
From the distant singing summer,
I know, there, by the Abinka River,
You are waiting for the poet.
He paints pictures of his native nature with special poetic images and strokes.
Just don’t lie here, don’t deceive,
Here, at these holy springs,
Where did someone leave a melody?
For my village poems.
Evgeniy Vasilyevich loves children very much. He is the author of several children's books: “What the Cricket Told Us About,” “The Foal,” “The Feathered Choir” and others. In poems addressed to the little reader, the author rejoices in the bright, colorful world of childhood.
Hello little friend,
Sit with me and listen
How a cricket sings in the night,
How it caresses the soul.
In the book “The Feathered Choir,” the poet invites you to wake up in the morning and enjoy the rising sun, listen to the birds singing in the grove under the direction of Maestro Nightingale.
Dear friend, get up, wake up,
Bow to the field, to the forest, -
There, with love still
The morning is glorified by a chorus of birds.
The book “Guess”, composed of riddle poems, is a window into the world of knowledge for a child. Riddle poems are read with pleasure by children and their parents.
E.V. Shchekoldin never ceases to engage in musical creativity, composing music for his poems. One of Evgeny Shchekoldin’s romances “Distant Friend” was included in his repertoire by the famous Russian singer Boris Shtokolov.
In 1997, in Paris, he took part in the creation of music for the film “Emigrants”. At the beginning of 1998, Shchekoldin met with Mikhail Tanich, one of the best songwriters, who gave a good assessment of his song lyrics.
One of the important events in the creative life of the poet and musician Shchekoldin is the release of the music album “Letter from Russia”.
Shchekoldin's books and songs are known and loved by admirers of his work. And the poet, composer and singer himself is full of creative energy and continues to write poems and songs.
You can read about the life and work of Evgeny Vasilyevich Shchekoldin:
Writers of Kuban for children / comp. Krasnodar Regional Children's Library named after. Ignatov brothers; resp. per issue V. Yu. Sokolova. – Krasnodar: Tradition, 2007. – 91 p.
TUMASOV
Boris Evgenievich
Prose writer, member of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Historical Sciences,
Professor of Kuban Technological University
Born on December 20, 1926 in the Kuban in the village of Umanskaya (now Leningradskaya). My teenage years passed through the war. At the age of sixteen, Boris became a soldier, participated in the liberation of Warsaw and the capture of Berlin, and was awarded eight military awards.
After demobilization, Boris Evgenievich entered the history department of the university in the city of Rostov-on-Don, graduating in a year and five months. He worked as a teacher in Krasnodar schools and defended his Ph.D. thesis.
Tumasov’s first books – “Stories and Fairy Tales” and “Teddy Bear” – were published in the late 1950s.
Boris Evgenievich is the author of many historical novels and stories “On the Borders of the South”, “Zalesskaya Rus'”, “The Unknown Land”, “Fierce Dawns”, “Hard Years”, “The Principality of Moscow May Be Great”, “Thy Will Be Done” and others. It was this genre that brought him real reader recognition.
B. Tumasov’s first historical story “On the Southern Frontiers,” published in 1962, tells about the Zaporozhye Cossacks, freedom-loving and courageous people who came to Kuban, the lands of the former Tmutarakan principality, in 1794.
The pages of the story “Zalesskaya Rus'”, published in 1966 by the Krasnodar book publishing house, take the reader back to the reign of Moscow Prince Ivan Kalita, during which the foundation of Moscow’s power was laid.
In 1967, Boris Evgenievich Tumasov was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
In 1968, the Krasnodar book publishing house published B. Tumasov’s story “Youth Beyond the Threshold,” dedicated to the memory of his fallen comrades. There were four of them, inseparable school friends, whom the war scattered on different fronts: Zheka, Zhenka, Ivan and Tolya.
With documentary accuracy, B. Tumasov writes about the hardships of soldier training in a reserve infantry regiment, about military exercises, about the solemn and unforgettable taking of the oath.
At the end of the 1970s, the writer again turned to the history of Ancient Rus'. New books by the writer are coming out one after another.
The novel “Fierce Dawns” takes readers to the 16th century, when there was a struggle to annex Pskov and Ryazan to Moscow.
Boris Tumasov showed true passion as a researcher by studying chronicles and archival documents, memoirs and monographs. This helped him maintain authenticity in his depiction of Rus''s past. He was able to present readers with extensive material about the life of the reigning houses of the Russian state from the 10th to the 20th centuries, giving the most complete artistic panorama of ancient Russian life. Readers are presented with history in novels - a unique, systematized, incomparable work. The entire history of the Russian state from the Rurikovichs to the Romanovs is conveyed by the writer in the smallest detail - from costume, weapons, utensils to deep penetration into the thoughts, feelings and actions of its historical characters, and most importantly - into the reasons that caused these actions.
In Moscow, the publishing houses "AST" and "Veche" in the "Rurikovich" series publish the writer's novels: "And the Rurikovich family will be", "Mstislav Vladimirovich", "The Principality of Moscow will be Great", "False Dmitry I", "False Dmitry II" and others . The reader becomes an invisible witness to the described events from the life of Prince Oleg, Ivan Kalita, the impostor Grishka Otrepyev, the national hero, the peasant commander Ivan Bolotnikov.
Tumasov is the author of more than thirty books. Six of his works were included in the “Golden Library of the Historical Novel” series. Boris Evgenievich lives and works in Krasnodar. His books found their readers in Russia, who appreciated the high skill of the talented prose writer.
Biryuk L. Chronicler of the Russian Land / L. Biryuk // Free Kuban. – 2006. – December 20 (No. 193). – P. 5.
Biryuk L. New life of a famous novel / L. Biryuk // Kuban today. – 2007. – No. 48 (April 13). – P. 7.
Boris Evgenievich Tumasov // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 174 – 181.
Mikhailov N. Ancient Rus' in modern prose / N. Mikhailov // Roots and shoots / N. Mikhailov. – Krasnodar, 1984. – P. 182 – 192.
Tumasov Boris Evgenievich // Writers of Kuban: biobibliographic reference book / comp. L. A. Gumenyuk, K. V. Zverev. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P. 146–148.
Shestinsky O. Confession to the readers of “Literary Kuban” / O. Shestinsky // Free Kuban. – 2000. – August 19 (No. 144). – P. 3.
ABDASHEV
Yuri Nikolaevich
Prose writer,
member of the Writers' Union of the Russian Federation,
laureate of the Regional Prize named after K. Rossinsky,
honorary citizen of the city of Krasnodar
“I know: the best place is mine. The best time is mine.” These words of Yuri Abdashev largely characterize his work and his human nature. His fate was difficult, tragic, but, as he believed, happy.
Yuri Nikolaevich Abdashev was born on November 27, 1923 in Harbin, Manchuria. Childhood memory retained a lot: he saw the living Ataman Semenov, saw the unforgettable Vertinsky in a Pierrot costume, performing on the stage “patch” of the Iveria restaurant, the vaults of the Iveron Church, covered with the names of all those who fell in the Russian-Japanese War. The writer recalled about his childhood: “I studied at a rather privileged commercial school and wore a cap with green piping... I will say one thing - the world was beautiful for me, a world of spiritual fulfillment... that seemed unshakable, and, probably, its total destruction looks especially tragic " It all ended in 1936, when the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) was sold, and Russians began to return to Russia. And although everyone knew about the repressions, my father firmly said: “Stop wandering around foreign lands. Yurka must have a homeland.”
A year after returning to Russia, his father was arrested and shot, his mother was exiled to the Karaganda camps for ten years. Both would be rehabilitated in 1957. Yuri Abdashev himself, as a thirteen-year-old teenager, was sent to the Verkhoturye closed labor colony in the Northern Urals. The writer reflected this period of his life in the novel “The Sun Smells of Fire” (1999). In the fate of his hero, the teenage boy Sergei Abaturov, the fate of the author is recognized. The young hero of the novel goes through all the trials of life without losing faith in goodness and justice.
The future writer changed many professions: sawed wood, was a worker on a geological team in the desert of Kazakhstan, sailed on a tugboat as an oil worker. These vital universities gave him rich material for future works.
In 1940, having passed the secondary school exams as an external student, Yuri Abdashev entered the English department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute. But the outbreak of war disrupted his plans. At the beginning of October 1941, he volunteered for the front and took part in the winter offensive near Moscow as a private in a ski battalion. After graduating from artillery school in 1942, he was assigned to the Caucasus. He fights in an anti-tank fighter regiment that liberated Kuban from the Nazi invaders.
During the war, Yuri Abdashev was wounded twice and was awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and combat medals.
After the war, Abdashev graduated from the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute. For nine years he worked as an English teacher in the village of Bystry Istok in Altai, and then at the Krasnodar 58th Railway School. From 1958 to 1961 he was the executive secretary of the Kuban almanac.
The publications of his first books date back to this period, the early 60s: “The Golden Path” and “We Are Not Looking for Peace.” Stories and novellas by Yuri Abdashev are published in youth magazines “Yunost”, “Smena”, “Young Guard”. The formation of a young man’s personality, first love, native nature, relationships between different generations - all this is talentedly reflected in the stories and stories of Yu. N. Abdashev and always touches the soul and heart of the reader.
The action of many of the writer’s works takes place on the seashore; we encounter expressive, accurate descriptions of the nature of the Black Sea coast, the Azov region, and the Caucasus Mountains. And against this background, the author draws different characters of people, their destinies, aspirations. They are not alike, but they are all united by a thirst for beauty, a thirst for romance. These people know how to see beauty and have inner beauty themselves.
Writers who went through war, like no one else, know how to appreciate peace and fight for it. Yuri Abdashev managed to bring his own unique touch to this topic.
The story “Far from War” is interesting to read because you meet living, human characters. The work is dedicated to young soldiers, military school cadets. Before our eyes, boys turn into cadets, then into officers. Everyone learns to evaluate themselves and their actions by the standard of war. None of these guys know what fate has determined for them tomorrow at the front, although it has already decided: life for some, death for others.
The story “Triple Barrier” is a work about the Great Patriotic War. Events take place in the Caucasus mountains. Three soldiers were left as a barrier on a high mountain pass in the difficult year of 1942. The purpose of the barrier was not to allow enemy scouts and saboteurs to pass along a narrow shepherd path. An ordinary episode of the war, but for three soldiers it was a great test of fortitude. They died one after another, honestly fulfilling their duty.
In recent years, Yuri Nikolaevich Abdashev has been working on the book “Prayer for the Cup, or 60 Letters to a Grandson.” It is dedicated to Harbin, the city of his childhood. The author lifts the veil of silence over such a difficult topic as the life of emigrants in Harbin, a Russian city located on the territory of another country.
In 1998, a wonderful person, a gifted writer, was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Krasnodar.”
Yu. N. Abdashev died in Krasnodar in January 1999. The light of his talent - literary and human - will not go out in the souls of his readers. In 2002, a memorial plaque was unveiled in Krasnodar on the house at 60 Kommunarov Street, where the writer lived and worked for many years.
Literature about life and creativity
Abdashev Yuri Nikolaevich // Great Kuban Encyclopedia. – Krasnodar, 2005. – T.1. : Biographical encyclopedic dictionary. – P. 5.
Abdashev Yuri Nikolaevich // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic reference book. – Krasnodar, 2004. – P. 5–7.
Abdashev Yu. Knight of Romance: [conversation with the writer / recorded by I. Dominova] // Free Kuban. – 1998. – No. 180 (October 3). – P. 8.
Vasilevskaya T. The sun smells like love / T. Vasilevskaya // Krasnodar news. – 1998. – No. 168 (September 12). – P. 5.
Dombrovsky V. Bright eyes and thoughts / V. Dombrovsky // Kuban today. – 2003. – No. 242-243 (November 28). – P. 3.
Writer and man with a capital letter // Krasnodar news. – 2002. – No. 32 (February 27). – P.2.
There are more honorary citizens of Krasnodar // Krasnodar News. – 1998. – No. 184 (October 6). – P. 3.
KRASNOV
Nikolay Stepanovich
Prose writer, poet,
member of the Writers' Union of the Russian Federation,
laureate of the Krasnodar Territory Administration Prize
The writer's childhood and early youth were spent in the village of Bogorodskaya Repyevka and in his hometown of Ulyanovsk, where he was born on December 30, 1924.
His mother was a city dweller with a high school education, his father was a peasant, and the future writer’s childhood was divided between city and countryside. The first literary publication was poetry in the newspaper “Be Prepared!”, a little later - in “Pionerskaya Pravda”.
In 1943, after graduating from school, N. Krasnov worked at a defense plant as a toolmaker, and in the same year he became a soldier. He fought on the Leningrad Front and was seriously wounded during the storming of Vyborg. Military awards: Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, medal “For Courage” and others.
War for Nikolai Krasnov is a soldier’s thorny roads. The front, offensive battles, wounds, hospitals... A picture of the life of our people fighting against fascism appeared before his eyes. “I was a drop in that big sea”, he will write later. The national feat during the Great Patriotic War became the main theme in his work. The author admits in his interviews that no matter how many years have passed since then, front-line events are as fresh in his memory as if it were yesterday. Nikolai Stepovich talks about an amazing incident that influenced his fate: “After the battle, the commander of the machine gun company saw among the dead soldiers someone very similar to me. And my machine gunner friends confirmed that it was me. And I stood at the mass grave, where my name was on the list of the dead. I knew some of those buried here... And I cry, talking about them all, about that unknown boy mistakenly buried under my name. Like every soldier, someone's son, brother or loved one. In my imagination, I often hear his mother, his bride, crying, and my heart clench with unbearable pain.”
The impressions of the wartime became the writer’s main spiritual wealth. In 1953–1956 he studied in Moscow at the M. Gorky Literary Institute, in 1965–1967 – at the Higher Literary Courses.
N. Krasnov has about three dozen books published in Moscow, Krasnodar, and the cities of the Volga region. Nikolai Krasnov works successfully in both poetry and prose. Collections of his stories and short stories have been published: “Two at the Gran River”, “The Road to Divnoye”, “Morning Light”, “My Faithful Stork” and many others.
In one of his poems, Nikolai Krasnov recalls his old letters scattered throughout the world - “and to friends who did not come back from the war, and to a loved one who left for someone else...”
I won't mince a word.
I can only add,
And again
I won’t lie a single line...
These words can rightfully be attributed to the entire work of the poet and prose writer Krasnov. Each of his poems, each story is a kind of letter to the reader, artless and confidential. Nothing is made up here, everything comes from the heart, everything is about what has been experienced, about what has been suffered. Memory of the war, love for people, native places, for everything pure and beautiful. Reading his works, we feel a man of great soul, sincere and kind. Life, as it is, appears from every page.
“Poetic perception of life, of everything around us, is the greatest gift left to us from childhood,” wrote K. Paustovsky. As if echoing him, Krasnov opens the story “House by a Flowering Meadow” with the words: “ Childhood never goes away. The joy of life, the thirst for discovery, the rapture of beauty, music, poetry, friendship, love, happiness - all this is a continuation of childhood" How mysterious and wonderful the world appears to four-year-old Vovka, who first came to the village (“Morning Light”)! Plunging into the atmosphere of childhood, the reader himself temporarily becomes a child and with surprise and joy re-learns this world in which they live pecking rooster, plucking geese, furious a dog, and cows with calves, and a wonderful bird blackguz. Here discoveries are made every day, and every new meeting becomes a miracle. Nikolai Krasnov's stories for children are written with love and understanding of their age characteristics.
Living in Kuban and not writing about the Cossacks is probably impossible. “The Tale of the Cossack Horse” is a wonderful work about a horse and rider during the Great Patriotic War, where the war is shown through the eyes of a horse. Another story, “Horses Walk Over the River,” is about the modern resurgent Cossacks. It contains bitter memories of de-Cossackization, and pride for fellow soldiers who fought from Kuban to Prague, and hope and anxiety for the fate of the Cossack region.
In Krasnov’s prose, the name of the village “Divnoe” is the focus of all the brightest things. The worldly wisdom of the woman of this village, the old Cossack woman Lyavonovna - “ Love warms a person, hate does not warm“- is also characteristic of all the main characters of books; it is also the basis of the writer’s creative and moral search.
Nikolai Stepanovich Krasnov preaches the philosophy of goodness, brings people the light of high morality, his books are always needed, and especially for those who are so difficult to find the way to their Marvelous.
Literature about life and creativity:
Bogdanov V. An era, passing, does not become the past / V. Bogdanov // Kuban today. – 2001. – January 31 (No. 21). – P. 3.
Bogdanov V. “Pretty apple” / V. Bogdanov // Kuban today. – 1998. – December 25 (No. 237 – 238). – P. 7.
Zolotussky I. Love warms a person / I. Zolotussky // Native Kuban. – 2004. – No. 4. – P. 76 – 78.
Likhonosov V. To the 80th anniversary of the famous Kuban writer Nikolai Stepanovich Krasnov: simplicity and clarity / V. Likhonosov // Native Kuban. – 2004. – No. 4. – P. 75 – 76.
Likhonosov V. The bright house of the poet / V. Likhonosov // Magic days / V. Likhonosov. – Krasnodar, 1998. – P. 143 – 145.
Nikolai Stepanovich Krasnov // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 93 – 97.
Krasnov Nikolay Stepanovich // Writers of Kuban: biobibliographic reference book / comp. L. A. Gumenyuk, K. V. Zverev; artist P. E. Anidalov. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P. 75–77.
Solovyov G. Invitation to Divnoye / G. Solovyov // Krasnov N. Horses walk over the river: Cossack stories, stories, novel. / N. Krasnov. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 5 – 6.
Yuri Vasilievich
Salnikov
Prose writer,
member of the Writers' Union of the Russian Federation,
chairman of the regional branch
Russian Children's Fund,
Knight of the Patriarchal Order
Holy Tsarevich Dmitry "For works of mercy",
Diploma winner of the All-Union competition for the best
art work for children,
Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation,
Honored Teacher of Kuban
Born on September 11, 1918 in Omsk. His father worked as an accountant, his mother as a proofreader in a printing house. From an early age, Yuri was taught to do everything himself - tinkering, carpentry, sewing, cutting, gluing. Everyone in the family loved to read, the parents often read aloud in the evenings and the children were taught to do so. Carried away by reading, the boy began to compose himself. He wrote his first story in the fourth grade, and in the fifth grade he began publishing a monthly family magazine in which he published his stories and made illustrations for them.
In 1936, he graduated with honors from school in Novosibirsk and entered the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature, Faculty of Philology. He received his diploma on the day the Great Patriotic War began.
From 1941 to 1943 he fought in the ranks of the active army at the front.
After the end of the war, he lived in Novosibirsk, where his professional literary activity began. Yuri Salnikov worked as a correspondent for the Novosibirsk Radio Broadcasting Committee, head of the literary department of the Novosibirsk Theater for Young Spectators (TYUZ), and head of the editorial office of the Siberian Lights magazine.
In 1952, his first book of stories, “In the Circle of Friends,” was published.
In 1954, Yuri Vasilyevich Salnikov was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
Subsequently, more than 30 of his books were published in different parts of the country - in Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Moscow and Krasnodar, where the writer moved in 1962.
Most of Yu. V. Salnikov’s works are dedicated to teenagers: “The Exam of Galya Perfilyeva”, “Talk about a Hero”, “Under the Hot Sun”, “Sixth Formers”, “To Always Be Fair”, “Man, Help Yourself”, “Sooner or Later "
The story “Jumper with Blue Christmas Trees” was awarded an Honorary Diploma at the All-Union competition for the best work of art for children. Two plays - “Your Family” and “Even if the reward is not near” - were performed on the stage of the Novosibirsk Theater for Young Spectators, and the play “The Price” was part of the repertoire of the Moscow Drama Theater.
Yuri Vasilievich Salnikov worked in a variety of genres. He wrote stories, novellas, plays, historical and documentary books, criticism, and journalism.
Yuri Vasilyevich Salnikov died in July 2001. A monument was erected to him on the alley of honorary burials of the Slavic Cemetery. There is a memorial plaque on the house where he lived.
Literature about life and creativity
Danko A. Confession on a given topic / A. Danko // Kuban news. – 2006. – June 7 (No. 82). – P. 6.
Kovina N. Writer who did good / N. Kovina // Krasnodar news. – 2002. – August 1 (No. 121). – P. 2.
Lobanova E. Talent of a writer and mentor / E. Lobanova // Pedagogical Bulletin of Kuban. – 2003. – No. 3. – P. 26 – 27.
Mayorova O. For works of mercy / O. Mayorova // Free Kuban. – 2002. – September 13 (No. 163). – P. 3.
Salnikov Yuri Vasilievich // Writers of Kuban: biobibliographic reference book / comp. L. A. Gumenyuk, K. V. Zverev. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P. 128 – 132.
Sergey Nikanorovich
Khokhlov
Poet, member of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation,
Laureate of the Prize of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation,
laureate of the regional prize named after. K. Rossinsky
Sergei Nikanorovich Khokhlov was born on June 5, 1927 in the Smolensk region, in the village of Melikhovo into a peasant family. From an early age, his father taught his son to work as a peasant. In 1936, the family moved to Kuban, to the village of Vasyurinskaya. In February 1944 they moved to Krasnodar.
After the death of his father, at the age of 14, Sergei began his working career. He worked on an expedition to measure railway tracks, as a student helmsman on a tugboat, as a combine operator and tractor driver on a collective farm, and as a factory worker. In 1947, he restored Krasnodar, destroyed by the Nazis, built the Krasnodar Thermal Power Plant, and was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
Sergei Khokhlov’s first poem “Willow” was published in the regional newspaper. The poem interested the Kuban composer Grigory Plotnichenko and marked the beginning of a long, fruitful collaboration.
In 1957, the Krasnodar book publishing house published the first collection of poetry by Sergei Khokhlov, “Spring Dawn”. Selections of Khokhlov’s poems are published in the newspapers “Komsomolets Kubani” and “Sovetskaya Kuban”. In the early 1960s, the Krasnodar book publishing house published two of his new books: poems for kids “Fox the Fisherman” and a collection of poems and poems “Blue Nights”.
The year 1963 became a significant milestone in the life of the young poet. This year, Sergei Khokhlov participated in the IV All-Union Meeting of Young Writers and was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
Poetry collections are published one after another: “People are so different”, “White plows”, “Long day”, “Surprise”, “Coast of Silence” and others, published in Moscow and Krasnodar.
The poet publishes a lot in the magazines “October”, “Sovremennik”, “Young Guard”, “Rural Life”, “Smena”, “Our Contemporary”, “Family and School”, “Literary Russia”, and on the pages of regional periodicals.
In 1992, for his book of poems “Premonition,” Sergei Khokhlov became a laureate of the Prize of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation.
For the book “Eternal Light” published in 1994, the Krasnodar regional administration awarded the literary prize to Sergei Nikanorovich Khokhlov. K. Rossinsky.
More than 60 songs were written by Sergei Nikanorovich in collaboration with composers G. Ponomarenko, G. Plotnichenko, V. Zakharchenko. But he considers his “calling card” to be the song “Kuban Blue Nights” written in the 1950s to the music of G. Plotnichenko, which received nationwide recognition.
Literature about life and creativity:
Martynovsky A. Inescapable light: about Sergei Nikanorovich Khokhlov / A. Martynovsky // Kuban writer. – 2007. – No. 5. – P. 4.
Petrusenko I. Poet Sergei Khokhlov and songs not his poems / I. Petrusenko // Kuban in song / I. Petrusenko. – Krasnodar, 1999. – P. 385 – 391.
Reshetnyak L. Racing with the era: poet Sergei Khokhlov / L. Reshetnyak // Kuban news. – 2011. – September 23 (No. 161). – P. 21
Sergei Nikanorovich Khokhlov // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 185 – 189.
Khokhlov S. Apple trees bloomed in the garden near the Bolshoi Theater: the poet about himself / S. Khokhlov // Native Kuban. – 2007. – No. 2. – P. 77 – 78.
Khokhlov S. Just about myself: about my first poem and not only about it / S. Khokhlov // Free Kuban. – 2007. – June 5 (No. 81). – P. 7.
Khokhlova M. “I will not sink into the silence of the century”: a conversation about the poems of my father / M. Khokhlova // Kuban writer. – 2007. – No. 5. – P. 3 – 4.
Khokhlova M. Daughter about her father / M. Khokhlova // Native Kuban. – 2007. – No. 2. – P. 83 – 84.
Pyotr Karpovich Ignatov
(1894–1984)
Prose writer,
member of the USSR Writers Union,
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
Pyotr Karpovich Ignatov was born on October 10, 1894 in the city of Shakhty, Rostov region, in the family of a miner. After primary school, I entered the school of marine mechanics to study as a ship mechanic. The premature death of his father, the family's breadwinner, forced him to quit his studies and go to work in a mechanical workshop. Later, the young man moved to Petrograd and got a job as a mechanic at the Ericsson plant. Here he became close to the underground Bolsheviks and in 1913 joined the Bolshevik Party.
During the days of the revolution and the Civil War, Pyotr Karpovich took an active part in the formation of the Red Guard detachment, fought bandits in the ranks of the workers' militia, fought with the White Guards, and delivered food to starving Petrograd.
In 1923, Pyotr Karpovich moved with his family to Kuban. Working in various areas of economic construction, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Forestry Industry without interruption from production.
In June 1941, the Great Patriotic War began. In August 1942, the Nazis were approaching Krasnodar, and the threat of occupation loomed over the Kuban. 86 partisan detachments were formed in our region. Pyotr Karpovich Ignatov received the task of creating a partisan detachment of miners to fight the Nazi invaders. The detachment was named “Dad”, Pyotr Karpovich was appointed its commander.
Together with him, his sons became partisans: an engineer at the Glavmargarin plant, Evgeniy, and a ninth-grade student, Geniy, as well as his wife, Elena Ivanovna. P.K. Ignatov later spoke in detail about the actions of the “Batya” detachment in his books: “The Life of a Common Man”, “Notes of a Partisan”, “Our Sons”, “Hero Brothers”, “Underground of Krasnodar”.
In one of the military operations, both sons of Pyotr Karpovich died heroically.
In the summer of 1944, Ignatov’s first book, “Hero Brothers,” appeared, dedicated to the memory of his fallen sons. And at the end of the same year, the first part of his trilogy “Notes of a Partisan” - “In the foothills of the Caucasus” - was published. This is the story of an eyewitness and participant in the events about the creation of the partisan detachment “Batya”, about the harsh, dangerous life of partisans in the mountains.
In 1948, the second and third books of the trilogy were published.
The second book of the trilogy “Underground of Krasnodar” tells about the organization of an underground group in an occupied city, about the courage, heroism and resourcefulness of Krasnodar underground fighters in the fight against the enemy.
“The Blue Line” is the third book, also based on documentary material.
After the war, Pyotr Karpovich retired for health reasons and devoted himself entirely to literary creativity. From his pen came the following stories: “Our Sons”, “The Life of a Common Man”, “Blue Soldiers”, “Children of a Working Family” and others. In total, Ignatov wrote 17 books. His works have been translated into 16 foreign languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese, Polish and others. He received many letters, including from abroad, from his readers.
The books of Pyotr Karpovich Ignatov are not just a family chronicle. These are, first of all, works in which the writer reflected the patriotic impulse of the Soviet people, who rose from young to old to defend their country, who saved their Motherland and the peoples of Europe from fascism.
In 1949, P.K. Ignatov became a member of the USSR Writers' Union, was involved in many social activities, was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Regional Council of People's Deputies, and communicated a lot with young people. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution and the Badge of Honor, and many medals.
Pyotr Karpovich Ignatov passed away in September 1984.
Literature about life and creativity:
Ignatov Petr Karpovich // Writers of Kuban: bio-bibliographic reference book / comp. L. A. Gumenyuk, K. V. Zverev. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P. 62 – 65.
Inshakov P. Petr Karpovich Ignatov / P. Inshakov. – Krasnodar: Krasnodar Book Publishing House, 1969. – 48 p.
Krasnoglyadova L. The extraordinary life of an ordinary person / L. Krasnoglyadova // The life of a simple person / L. Krasnoglyadova. – Moscow, 1980. – P. 5 – 9.
BelyakovIvan Vasilievich
member of the USSR Writers Union
Belyakov was born on December 8, 1915 in the village of Mokry Maidan, Gorky Region, then moved with his family to the city of Gorky. Studying at a factory training school and a railway technical school, serving in the railway troops in the Far East - the beginning of the life of the future poet. Maybe it was his native Volga region, the unique beauty of nature, where he spent his childhood, that pushed young Belyakov to literary creativity.
In 1938 he entered the M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. And when the Great Patriotic War began, Ivan Vasilyevich, without hesitation, left the 3rd year of the institute to go to the front. These were years of testing for the whole country and for the young poet, who went from an ordinary soldier to an officer, first at the headquarters of the 49th Rifle Corps, then, after being wounded, during restoration work in the railway troops. Wherever the war took I. Belyakov - he was a company technician, a senior battalion technician, and a correspondent for the newspaper "Military Railway Worker" - his love of poetry and the desire to create did not leave him.
In 1947, after demobilization, Ivan Vasilyevich came to Kuban. Worked for the newspapers “Sovetskaya Kuban” and “Komsomolets Kubani”.
One after another, his books, collections of songs, poems, and fairy tales are published. He is published in the newspapers “Pionerskaya Pravda”, “Literary Gazette”, magazines “Znamya”, “Friendly Guys”, “Young Naturalist”, “Koster”, “Murzilka”, “Crocodile”, “Ogonyok”, “Don”.
In 1957, Belyakov was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
All the poet's works have a children's theme. A combat officer who went through a cruel, bloody war, began to write kind, bright books for children about “blue-eyed boys”, about “little Larisa”, who has “freckled stars and freckles on her face.” He became a children's poet. He wanted boys and girls to know about their dead peers who never had time to mature and grow up. This is what prompted the poet to write poems about the Kuban Cossack Petya Chikildin from the detachment of the famous Kochubey, and about Kolya Pobirashko, a young intelligence officer from the village of Shabelsky. Belyakov managed to show in the little heroes an adult understanding of courage and bravery in the name of the Motherland. The theme of patriotism became a distinctive feature of the poet’s work. With the help of expressive artistic means, the author emphasized the idea that a person who gave his life to the people, the Motherland, is immortal.
In 1970, the Krasnodar book publishing house published a book of poems by I. Belyakov “Eternal Youth”. In it, he talked about the pioneers and Komsomol members who died in battles for their Motherland on the fronts of the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars.
Many of I. Belyakov’s poems glorify the beauty of nature. Her eternal voice is heard in them: the sound of water, wind, the hubbub of birds, the whisper of a ripening field, the whole rainbow of flowers of the steppe expanse is seen. The cycles “I Help Mom”, “Flying Light”, “Sun Splashes” reveal to the children the wonderful world of plants and animals. The author encourages little readers not to pass by the beauties of nature, to comprehend its secrets.
The fairy tales “Once Upon a Time in Spring” and “The Hare Built a House,” included in the collection “Merry Round Dance,” teach children to love animals.
The poet's constant companion is humor. A sense of humor makes poetry more interesting, helps reveal the content, and creates an optimistic mood. So, the woodpecker in the poem of the same name “He’s dressed for work—comfortably, simply, smartly. He is wearing a crimson beret and a colorful overall. He sharpened his instrument with special care.”. A humorous description of the woodpecker's appearance does not interfere with the disclosure of its main qualities - hard work aimed at benefiting others.
The poems “Don’t be timid, sparrow”, “Jackdaw” and others are dedicated to nurturing kindness, cordiality, and a caring attitude towards feathered friends in children.
Ivan Vasilyevich wrote more than 40 books. They were published in Krasnodar, Stavropol, in the central publishing houses “Young Guard”, “Children’s Literature”, “Soviet Russia”, “Malysh”.
Ivan Vasilyevich died in December 1989.
Literature about the work of I. V. Belyakov
Belyakov Ivan Vasilievich // Writers of Kuban: biobibliographic reference book / comp. L. A. Gumenyuk, K. V. Zverev; artist P. E. Anidalov. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P. 20-25.
Mikhalkov S. Preface / S. Mikhalkov // Belyakov I. Burn, fire! / I. Belyakov. – Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1975. – P. 5.
Vitaly Petrovich Bardadym
Born on July 24, 1931 in the city of Krasnodar. In 1951 he was drafted into the army and served in the Black Sea Fleet. After demobilization, he returned to his hometown, worked as an x-ray technician, graduating in absentia from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Medical College.
Vitaly Petrovich Bardadym is a radiologist by profession, and a local historian, researcher, and writer by vocation. Since 1966, he began publishing in the magazines “Literary Russia”, “Literary Ukraine”, in regional newspapers, and in the almanac “Kuban”.
In 1978, his first small book, “Sketches about the Past and Present of Krasnodar,” was published. In it, on the basis of archival documents and memories of old-timers, the pages of the life of the pre-revolutionary city were restored. The material contained in the book was unknown to a wide circle of readers, and this immediately made the “Etudes” a bibliographic rarity.
In 1986, a book by V.P. appeared on bookstore shelves. Bardadym “Guardians of the Kuban Land” - twenty essays about wonderful people who dedicated their lives to their native land. She resurrected many names that were undeservedly forgotten and erased from the history of Kuban. These are Mikhail Babych, Yakov Kukharenko, Ivan Popka, Fyodor Shcherbina, Grigory Kontsevich, Ilya Repin and many others.
The years 1992-1993 were fruitful for the writer, when the 200th anniversary of the capital of Kuban was celebrated. One after another, collections of his stories, historical and literary essays, and poems are published: “Cossack Kuren”, “Military Valor of the Kuban People”, “Silver Spoon”, “Sonnets”.
In 1992, the book “Sketches about Ekaterinodar” was published. The book consists of short stories that merge into a single narrative and gradually introduce the reader to the history of the city where we were born, grew up, live and often ask questions: “What was here before, who built it, why is it called that?”
In 1995, the book “Architects of Ekaterinodar” was published. It includes sixteen essays about the destinies of amazing people who created the unique architectural appearance of the capital of our Cossack region. These were highly educated, first-class architects and engineer-artists: Vasily Filippov, Nikolai Malama, Alexander Kozlov, Ivan Malgerb, Mikhail Rybkin.
Local talents and visiting artists, writers, painters, composers and singers are the main characters in the books “The Literary World of Kuban”, “Idols of the Theatre: Sketches of Theater Life”, “Brush and Chisel” published in the 2000s. Artists in Kuban”, “They were admired by the people of Kuban”.
Thanks to the participation of V.P. Bardadym, the house of Ataman Ya. G. Kukharenko was preserved, the house of F. Ya. Bursak was restored and preserved. Historian, writer and true patriot V.P. Bardadym was awarded the Order "For Love and Loyalty to the Fatherland", the cross "For the Revival of the Cossacks", the medal "For Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Kuban" II degree, the medal "300th Anniversary of the Kuban Cossack Army" , medal "For Merit".
Literature about life and creativity
Bozhukhin V. Poet of history, goodness and honor / V. Bozhukhin // Krasnodar. – 2001.– N32 (July 27 – August 2). – P. 17.
Vitaly Petrovich Bardadym // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 19-22.
Bardadym V. If Bardadym doesn’t know something, then no one knows: [conversation with V.P. Bardadym / recorded by L. Reshetnyak] // Kuban News. – 2001. – No. 126-127 (July 27). – P. 7.
Kovina N. Walk around the city with love / N. Kovina // Krasnodar News. – 2002. – No. 178 (October 31). – P. 6.
Korsakova N. “Collector of gold placers...” / N. Korsakova // Free Kuban. – 2001. – No. 128 (July 24). – P. 2.
Ratushnyak V. Chronicler of the Kuban region / V. Ratushnyak // Kuban today. – 2006. – No. 104 (July 25). – P. 4.
Vitaly Borisovich Bakaldin
Vitaly Borisovich was born in 1927 in Krasnodar into the family of a civil engineer. Because of my father's profession, I had to move often. Vitaly Borisovich lived in North Ossetia and Krondstadt, on the Black Sea coast and the Far East.
On June 30, 1944, the young poet published the first story in his life, “Vovka,” for which he received first prize at a city competition. He was given a book and coupons for sugar and bread... This is such a reward in wartime. Then the 15-year-old teenager had the opportunity to see with his own eyes the victims of the fascist occupation and the liberation of Krasnodar. The theme of war will constantly return in his poems.
Bakaldin’s first poems appeared on the pages of newspapers and magazines during his years of study at the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute, and in 1952 the first poetry collection “To My Friends” was published.
During Vitaly Borisovich’s work as a teacher of Russian language and literature at Krasnodar railway school No. 58, new poems and poems appeared: “The Touchy Princess,” “My City,” “Herbs and Ants.” The school firmly entered the poet’s heart.
In 1956, at the age of 29, Vitaly Borisovich was accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR, in which he turned out to be the only poet-teacher. The place of the teacher in society, his importance as a spiritual educator is a new topic in literature, discovered by Bakaldin.
For more than 10 years he headed the writers' organization of Kuban, and for more than 4 years he was the editor-in-chief of the Kuban almanac. Vitaly Bakaldin is the author of many poetry collections published in Moscow and Krasnodar.
He writes for the little ones (“Alyoshka’s adventures”, “Russian port of Novorossiysk”, “In our yard”, “Smeshinki”), for teenagers “The Touchable Princess”) on any topic simply and truthfully.
Kindness and cordiality are the main thing in Bakaldin’s poems. But over the years, sunny, major tones and colors become more restrained. Vitaly Borisovich showed not only the strength of his talent, but also real civic courage in his poems “Reanimation”, “Bitter Confession”, “August 1991”, “That’s the Point”...
Bakaldin’s play “Mountain Daisy” with music by E. Alabin was staged at the Krasnodar Operetta Theater, and songs based on his poems became popular.
About V.B. Bakaldina and his work:
Bakaldin Vitaly Borisovich: Biographical information // Writers of Kuban: Bibliographic reference book. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P.15–19.
The city honors its poet: [Celebrations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the creative and 45th anniversary of the pedagogical activity of V. B. Bakaldin] \\ Krasnodar news.–1994. - 30 June. – S.1.
Yudin V. Light beyond the cosmos of nights: [To the 70th anniversary of Vitaly Bakaldin] /V. Yudin // Free Kuban. – 1997. – May 24. – P.1.8
Postol M. Poetry of truth, anger and struggle: [Poet V. Bakaldin] / M. Postol // Free Kuban. – 1998. – December 11. – P.1.8
Arkhipov V. “The love and sorrow of my era live in me...”: [To the 75th anniversary of the poet Vitaly Bakaldin] / V. Arkhipov // Kuban today. – 2002. – June 14. – C16.
Biryuk L. Glorified Krasnodar: [The work of Vitaly Bakaldin, dedicated to our city] / L. Biryuk // Free Kuban. – 2004. – December 11. – P.14.
Konstantinova Y. Two volumes of confession...: [About the new two-volume collection of poems by Vitaly Bakaldin “Favorites”] / Y. Konstantinova // Free Kuban. – 2005. – May 24. – P.8.
Biryuk L. Just forty-five minutes for the lesson...: [Vitaly Bakaldin about teachers, modern school and one of the facets of his creativity associated with this profession, as a former teacher] / L. Biryuk
// Free Kuban. – 2005. – October 5. - P.1,6-7.
Expensive award: [Vitaly Bakaldin was awarded the title of laureate of the Mikhail Sholokhov International Prize] // Free Kuban. – 2006. – May 20. – P.2
Lameikin V. About Vitaly Bakaldin - poet and man // Free Kuban. – 2007. – February 9. – P.28.
“What I am, time will judge...”: [New poems by Vitaly Bakaldin] // Free Kuban. - 2007. – February 9. – P.28.
Bakaldin V. Bequeathed memory: [About the poet’s father Boris Alexandrovich and the Bakaldin family tree] // Literary Kuban. – 2007. – February 1 – 15. – P. 6 – 8.; February 16–28.– P.6–8.; March 1 – 15. – pp. 6 –7.
Barabbas
Ivan Fedorovich
Ivan Fedorovich Varavva was born on February 5, 1925 in the city of Novobataysk, Rostov region. During the period of general collectivization, the family was dispossessed, its head was exiled to the Solovetsky Islands, and the parents of the future poet, along with their two children, returned on foot to their native Kuban.
In 1942, after graduating from high school in the village of Starominskaya, Ivan Fedorovich volunteered for the front.
In the battle for the Caucasus, Varabbas, with the rank of private infantry rifleman and company mortar gunner, in the spring of 1943 took part in breaking through the enemy “Blue Line” in the Novorossiysk direction. In May of the same year, during the assault on the Hill of Heroes, near the village of Krymskaya, he was seriously wounded and shell-shocked. Returning from the hospital, as part of the 290th Novorossiysk Motorized Rifle Regiment, he liberated the city of Novorossiysk from the Nazi hordes.
As a twenty-year-old sergeant in the victorious May of 1945, Ivan Varabbas left his autograph on the wall of the Reichstag, in defeated enemy Berlin. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degree, the Order of the Red Star and the Badge of Honor, the medals “For Courage”, “For the Defense of the Caucasus”, “For the Liberation of Warsaw”, “For the Capture of Berlin".
He wrote his first poems for the division newspaper in the trenches.
The first notable publication – four poems – took place in 1950, in the almanac of young writers of Ukraine “Happy Youth”. Poetic works from his student years were published in 1951 in the magazine “New World,” edited by A. Tvardovsky. In the same year, at the second All-Union Meeting of Young Writers in Moscow, in the report of the famous poet Alexei Surkov, Ivan Varabbas was named among the best young poets in the country.
For many years, Ivan Fedorovich was engaged in collecting and studying Cossack folklore. The poet was fond of oral folk art, knew the songs of the Kuban Cossacks well, and could sing and play the bandura himself.
In 1966 he published “Songs of the Kuban Cossacks”; several dozen works of this genre were included in the anthology “Lyrical Songs. Classical library of Sovremennik. The poet managed to preserve the color, structure, and the very spirit of the Cossack song. This is the secret of the high skill of Ivan Fedorovich Varabbas.
Ivan Fedorovich Varabbas never broke ties with his homeland. He was a faithful son of the Kuban land. The sense of beauty in the poet’s lyrics came from a close sense of the expanses of his native land and a family connection with the folk life of Kuban. All his poems are imbued with love for the earth.
Awarded the medal “Hero of Labor of Kuban”, Honorary Ataman of the Pashkovsky Kuren, Honorary Academician of the Krasnodar State University of Culture and Arts.
Ivan Fedorovich Varabbas, an outstanding Russian poet, a true patriot of Kuban, died in April 2005.
Literature about life and creativity
Varabba Ivan Fedorovich // Great Kuban Encyclopedia. – Krasnodar, 2005. – T.1: Bibliographical Encyclopedic Dictionary. – P.47.
Znamensky A. Diamonds don’t lie on the road...: reflections on the poetry of Ivan Varabbas / A. Znamensky // Burning Bush: about literature, about books / A. Znamensky. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P.84-100.
Ivan Fedorovich Varabba // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 32-34.
Kiryanova I. Cossack and the Argonauts / I. Kiryanova // Native Kuban. – 2005. – No. 1. – P. 110-119.
Kovina N. Poetic free spirit of Ivan Varabbas / N. Kovina // Krasnodar News. – 2004. – No. 17 (February 4). – P.9.
Petrusenko I. Poet I. Barabbas and songs based on his poems / I. Petrusenko // Kuban in song / I. Petrusenko. – Krasnodar, 1999. – P.365-373.
Slepov A. Varavva Ivan Fedorovich / A. Slepov // About the song folklore of Kuban: notes / A. Slepov. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P.127-131.
Chumachenko V. From the Cossack root / V. Chumachenko // Native Kuban. – 1999. – No. 4. – P. 47-49.
Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov
Born on April 30, 1936, at the station. Furnaces of the Kemerovo region. His early years were spent in Novosibirsk. A war-deprived, half-starved childhood. In 1943, his father died at the front, and the seven-year-old boy remained with his mother.
An affinity for words, for Russian speech, was ingrained in him from childhood. Even at school, Viktor Likhonosov’s favorite subject was literature. In high school, another hobby appeared - school theater. This hobby became so serious that he even tried to enroll in a theater institute in Moscow, but to no avail. In 1956, Likhonosov moved to Krasnodar and entered the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Philology. After graduation, he worked as a rural teacher.
In 1963, V. Likhonosov sent Alexander Tvardovsky his first story “Bryansk” - about the life of “newcomers” an old man and an old woman in a remote Kuban farm. In the same year, the story was published in the New World magazine. Then his stories and novellas are published in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar: “Evenings”, “Something Will Happen”, “Voices in Silence”, “Happy Moments”, “Clean Eyes”, “Family”, “Elegy”.
In 1966, Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
His travel stories “Someday” (1965), “I Love You Brightly” (1969), “Autumn in Taman” (1970) were published one after another.
“Autumn in Taman” is a story-reflection, a story-monologue. “I just returned from Taman. I feel fermentation in myself, fascinated, as in my youth, by my native history, but so far it’s all musical, not verbal. I was worried about everything. And in Taman I was worried. She is beautiful when you think about Mstislav and Lermontov on her land...”
This story is a summary of the writer’s journey. It’s not for nothing that it bears the subtitle “Notes after the Road.” The narrative style is unique: past and present merge into a single whole. For this work, V. Likhonosov received the title of laureate of the Prize. L. Tolstoy “Yasnaya Polyana”.
Likhonosov's real fame came from the novel Our Little Paris, published in 1987 by the Moscow publishing house Soviet Writer, for which the author was awarded the most prestigious literary award - the State Prize of the RSFSR. The appearance of this book was welcomed by leading Soviet writers: Valentin Rasputin, Vasily Belov, Viktor Astafiev.
The Kuban land became home to the writer. “I found myself in such a quiet, gentle city, where my soul from my youth was not disheveled by either the bustle, or the hum of cars, or the frantic rhythm, or huge distances. I grew stronger and matured in the silence and gentleness of the south.”
The city is the main character of the novel. The past comes alive in memories. Time has no boundaries, and Memory, connecting generations, is continuous. Throughout the entire narrative, the author paints a picture of the stratification of the Cossacks. This is a novel about the tragic fate of the Kuban Cossacks of the early 20th century.
The works of V. Likhonosov have been translated into Romanian, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian, German, French and other languages. Since 1998, V. Likhonosov has been the editor-in-chief of the literary and historical magazine “Native Kuban”. Most of his articles, essays and essays are devoted to the protection and preservation of the historical heritage of Kuban. The writer was awarded a medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences “For outstanding contribution to the development of Russian literature” and a UNESCO diploma “For outstanding contribution to world culture.”
Znamensky A. Tales and stories of V. Likhonosov A. Znamensky // Burning Bush: about literature, about books / A. Znamensky. – Krasnodar, 1980. – P.117-126.
Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V. P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P.103-106.
Cherkashina M. You need to live in silence / M. Cherkashina // Kuban is my pride / ed. T. A. Vasilevskoy. - Krasnodar, 2004. – P. 204-208.
Viktor Nikolaevich
Prose writer,
member of the Writers' Union of the Russian Federation,
laureate of the regional prize named after. K. Rossinsky,
laureate of the award. A. Znamensky,
five-time winner of the annual Ogonyok magazine award,
Honored Worker of Culture of Kuban
Born on November 7, 1925 in the village of Bolshie Veski, Alexandrovsky district, Vladimir region, into a peasant family.
In 1943, Viktor Nikolaevich was drafted into the army. After studying at the Irkutsk Military Aviation School of Aircraft Mechanics, from 1944 to 1950, he served in aviation units in the Kuban - in the villages of Kavkazskaya, Novotitarovskaya, and in the city of Krasnodar.
After demobilization, in August 1950, Viktor Loginov was accepted into the editorial office of the Novotitarovsk regional newspaper “Under the Banner of Lenin” for the position of executive secretary, and worked in the regional youth newspaper “Komsomolets Kubani”.
Viktor Loginov began writing his first novel, “Roads of Comrades,” in 1945; it was published in 1952.
In 1956, after the release of the collection “Pansies,” Loginov was accepted as a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1957–1959 he studied at the Higher Literary Courses at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky in Moscow. During these years, his new books were published: the novel “Difficult Days in Beregovaya”, the collections “Autumn Stars”, “A Familiar Route”, “Mallows”.
In the 60s, the collections “Alkino Sea”, “The Color of Baked Milk”, “Across the Road”, “Time for Lilies of the Valley”, “Alexandrovsky Brides” appeared.
The works of Viktor Loginov were published in well-known periodicals: the magazines “Ogonyok”, “Znamya”, “Our Contemporary”, “Neva”, “Young Guard”. Loginov's books were published by publishing houses in Moscow, Voronezh, Krasnodar, selling thousands of copies throughout the country.
In the late 70s, based on Viktor Loginov’s story “That’s Why Love”, the film “Our Mutual Friend” was produced, directed by Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev.
Loginov wrote many books for young readers. Among them are the novels “The Roads of Comrades”, “The Most Important Secret”, “Oleg and Olga”, the stories “The Tale of First Love”, “Spain, Spain!..”, “Vityushkin’s Childhood”, “The Good World”.
According to the writer, literature for young people should not only be interesting and exciting, but also « should teach curiosity, attention to the small details of life, through which much is revealed. It should teach you to love your homeland, nature, parents, and in general – to love people and respect them.”
Literature about life and creativity
Biryuk L. Life dedicated to the book: on the 85th anniversary of Viktor Loginov / L. Biryuk // Kuban today. – 2010. – November 5. – P. 3.
Biryuk L. Quiet date: [exactly 50 years ago, the Krasnodar book publishing house published the novel by the now famous writer Viktor Nikolaevich Loginov “Difficult days in Beregovaya”] / L. Biryuk // Kuban writer. – 2008. – No. 5. – P. 5.
Biryuk L. Singer of the Kuban: on the 85th anniversary of the Kuban writer V. Loginov / L. Biryuk // Kuban writer. – 2010. – No. 11. – P. 1, 3.
Viktor Nikolaevich Loginov // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – pp. 107–112.
Loginov V. Thoughts about painful issues / V. Loginov // Kuban today. – 2007. – April 19. – P. 4.
Loginov V. Inextinguishable sparks of the Russian word / V. Loginov // Kuban writer. – 2007. – No. 5. – P. 7.
Loginov V. Notes on the fate of the prose writer / V. Loginov // Kuban writer. – 2007. – No. 9. – P. 6.
Pokhodzey O. “City of Happiness” by Viktor Loginov / O. Pokhodzey // Kuban writer. – 2007. – No. 4. – P. 8.
Khoruzhenko L. Viktor Loginov – laureate of the Anatoly Znamensky Prize / L. Khoruzhenko // Kuban today. – 2007. – September 26. – P. 6.
Kronid Aleksandrovich Oboishchikov
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Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR - Russia, member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR - Russia, Honored Worker of Culture of Kuban, Knight of the Order of the Red Star, Knight of the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree, awarded 17 medals for participation in the Great Patriotic War, Honored Artist of Kuban, honorary member of the regional association of Heroes of the Soviet Union, Russia and full holders of the Order of Glory, laureate of the regional literary prize named after. N. Ostrovsky 1985, laureate of the regional literary prize named after. E. Stepanova 2002, awarded the medal “For outstanding contribution to the development of Kuban”, 1st degree, Badge of the Minister of Defense “For Patronage of the Armed Forces”, memorial signs to them. A. Pokryshkina and “For loyalty to the Cossacks.” |
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He was born on April 10, 1920 on the Don land, in the village of Tatsinskaya. At the age of ten he moved with his parents to Kuban. Lived in the village of Bryukhovetskaya, the cities of Kropotkin, Armavir, Novorossiysk. The first poem, “The Death of the Stratostratus,” was published in the newspaper “Armavir Commune” in 1936, when Kronid Aleksandrovich was in the eighth grade. After graduating from school, he worked in the port, at a grain elevator. But I always dreamed of becoming a pilot. His dream came true in 1940, he graduated from the Krasnodar Aviation School.
From the first day of the Great Patriotic War, he took part in battles on the Southwestern Front, then, as part of an air regiment of the Northern Fleet, he covered caravans of Allied ships. “...I had to fly over the taiga in winter and summer, sometimes in very difficult weather conditions. You can believe me that the bright creative talent of our recognized regimental poet Kronid Oboyshchikov helped solve all these complex problems even then,” recalls Alexey Uranov, State Prize laureate. During the war, Kronid Aleksandrovich made forty-one combat missions. He devoted two difficult decades to military aviation, fulfilling his duty as a defender of the Motherland with courage, dignity and honor.
His first collection of poems, “Anxious Happiness,” was published in Krasnodar in 1963. In the same year he became a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, and in 1968 - a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. In total, the poet published 21 collections of poetry, seven of which were for children. Many songs were written based on Oboyshchikov's poems by composers Grigory Ponomarenko, Viktor Ponomariov, Sergei Chernobay, Vladimir Magdalits.
Kronid Aleksandrovich's poems have been translated into Adyghe, Ukrainian, Estonian, Tatar and Polish.
He is one of the authors and compilers of the collective collections “Kuban Glorious Sons”, dedicated to the Kuban Heroes of the Soviet Union, and the albums “Golden Stars of Kuban”, for which in 2000 he was accepted as an honorary member of the Regional Association of Heroes of the Soviet Union, Russia and full holders of the order Glory.
The main theme of his works is the courage and heroism of pilots, front-line brotherhood, the beauty of the earth and human souls.
Literature about the work of K.A. Oboyshchikova:
Grineva L. Prize named after the Russian mother / L. Grineva // Kuban news. – 2002. – May 21. – P.7.
The roads we walked: The famous Kuban poet Kronid Oboishchikov turns 80 on April 10 // Kuban news. – 2000. – April 11. – P.3.
Drozdov I. Poems born in the sky / I. Drozdov // Kuban news. – 1997. – September 12. – P.3.
Zhuravskaya T. Poet and citizen / T. Zhuravskaya // Kuban news. – 2001. – January 5. – P.12.
Karpov V. A meeting that warms the soul / V. Karpov // Oboishchikov K. We were: stories, stories, poems / K. Oboishchikov. – Krasnodar: Sov. Kuban, 2001. – P.4 – 6.
Klebanov V. I was wounded by the twentieth century / V. Klebanov // Kuban news. – 2003. – December 16. – P.4
Kozlov V. Singer of courage and fidelity / V. Kozlov // Award / K. Oboishchikov. – Krasnodar: Sov. Kuban, 1997. – P.3 – 5.
Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection - Krasnodar: Northern Caucasus, 2000. - From the contents. Kronid Upholsterers. – P.132 – 136.
Ryabko A. Navigator of Kuban poets / A. Ryabko // Kuban news. – 1998. – April 11. – P.8.
Svistunov I. We were, are and will be / I. Svistunov // Kuban news. – 2002. – May 21. – P.7.
Striving for the cherished height: About the work of the poet Kronid Oboyshchikov / Comp. T. Oboyshchikova, G. Postarnak. – [B.m.: b.g.].
Leonid Mikhailovich Pasenyuk
Leonid Pasenyuk is romantic, upbeat, looking for extraordinary events and situations. His heroes...people of strong characters. There is something of Jack London in Paseniuk's books, and undoubtedly this attracts the reader to him.
A. Safronov.
From a report at the forum of writers of the South of Russia. 1962
Not every one of us is destined to become a space explorer or explorer of the mysteries of Antarctica. Penetrate into the bowels of the Earth and the water columns of the ocean. Just a lot of driving, flying and walking. Everyone needs to know their planet, its past, present and future. And therefore, we cannot do without not only those who discover new things and unravel the unsolved, but also without those who know how to talk about it intelligently, entertainingly and knowledgeably.
Such writers were and remain M. Prishvin, K. Paustovsky, I. Sokolov-Mikitov. Our fellow countryman, writer Leonid Pasenyuk, can also be counted among these loud and well-known names in our literature.
“My whole life is a walk along the shore...” Remembering these words belonging to Henry Thoreau, Leonid Pasenyuk claims that he could repeat them about himself. However, he knows the happiness of difficult roads. Both in life and in literature. Constant search, hard physical work, steady pursuit of a goal, sometimes associated with severe hardships and risks - not everyone would choose such a fate for themselves.
He was born on December 10, 1926 in the village of Velikaya Tsvilya in the Zhitomir region, not far from the now well-known Chernobyl, where he completed seven years of high school before the war. But now he is one of the most educated writers, having deeply studied history and literature, geology, biology and other areas of human knowledge.
How many talents combined in this amazing person! Based on his books, the Commanders and Kamchatka are studied, his historical articles are included in academic publications, scientists in the USA and Canada quote Pasenyuk not only in lectures, but also in their works. He is the owner of a collection of rare minerals and stones, maps, photographs, books that can be the envy of specialists.
Leonid Pasenyuk became acquainted with life's hardships early.
At the age of fifteen, when the war began, he became the son of the regiment. At Stalingrad he attacked the enemy together with adult soldiers. He was shell-shocked. Then he walked the roads of war from Stalingrad to Sevastopol, and in the post-war years he built facilities for the Kapustin Yar-Baikonur missile and testing range complex.
Having been demobilized after eight years of military service, he worked as a turner at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, fished in the Black and Azov Seas, dug diversion channels in the oil fields in Baku, and built the Krasnodar Thermal Power Plant as a digger and concrete worker.
Leonid Pasenyuk dates the beginning of his creative biography to 1951, when his first story was published in the Stalingrad youth newspaper. And in 1954, the first book “In Our Sea” was published in Krasnodar. Dedicated to the fishermen of the Black Sea region, it was a successful attempt at writing. Thanks to her, Leonid Pasenyuk was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. He becomes a professional writer. Starting from this little book, fishermen, geologists, hunters, volcanologists became the writer’s favorite heroes.
Fate was generous in its own way to Leonid Pasenyuk. She did not skimp, gifting him with the courage of a pioneer, the tirelessness of a sailor, the keen observation of an artist and the talent of a storyteller. Otherwise, how would his amazing books have been born? Their names speak for themselves: “Mother-of-pearl shell”, “Eye of the typhoon”, “Island on a thin stem” and others.
The author's inquisitive mind is interested in many things, but the life of the coastal regions of the North, the Far East and Kamchatka is his main area of interest. In his works, he describes in detail and scrupulously the nature of these places, the features of their climate, flora and fauna. He worries deeply and thinks intensely about environmental and moral issues.
Fate gave him both the excitement of a traveler and the happiness of discovery. It was he who discovered in the vicinity of the Kamchatka Tolbachik volcano a previously unknown natural phenomenon here - traces of trees incinerated by lava, but which managed to leave their imprints in it. How many people can boast of having a name immortalized on geographical maps? Meanwhile, the name of Leonid Pasenyuk, a meticulous researcher, is named after one of the capes on Bering Island!
A gentle man. Like the hero of his books, who learned almost from childhood that the most priceless gift is life. And that the luxury of communication can be given not only by people, but also by the harsh ocean, and a rare mineral, and a hill, and a deer. From an early age, the desire to see what was around the corner, beyond that cape, took root. The desire for discovery and search became the main university of Leonid Mikhailovich.
The travel writer penned popular science and journalistic articles, historical investigations, essays, literary and artistic works, in which he is truthful and does not try to imitate anyone. It was reality that was always his inspirational muse. Pasenyuk’s works are not light entertaining reading, but most often an unvarnished eyewitness account. Possessing a keen sense of authorial responsibility to the reader, Leonid Pasenyuk fears falsehood and approximation above all else. Therefore, the speech of his heroes is weighty and convincing.
It’s impossible not to remember the desperate Zina from the story Stone from the Weddell Sea,” the rude director of the crab factory, Gazora from “The Island on a Thin Leg,” and the charming American Gloria. The descriptions of travel in the writer’s books resemble a dialogue with an invisible reader-interlocutor, and in historical descriptions poetic lines are often heard. This is how figuratively he speaks about sailors and Robinsons: “Here the sea is full of secrets and internal movement invisible to the eye, it is invisibly outlined by the courses of ships, like an intricate children’s picture in which you need to find a certain figure among the confusion of lines.”
Leonid Pasenyuk's creative interests have become more and more diverse over the years. Without changing his devotion to the Far East, he is interested in the history of “Russian America” and succeeded in his search. His search for the little-known Russian traveler Gerasim Izmailov, who was one of the first to explore Alaska, is noteworthy. The search and discovery of the writer Leonid Pasenyuk interested the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the annual conference in 1994, his report by seafarer Gerasim Izmailov attracted the attention of scientists from many countries and was published in the American Yearbook. The report about him in the same yearbook says: “The reports devoted to the biographies of the most prominent Russian Pacific sailors of the 18th century aroused particular interest. Expert Commander writer L.M. Pasenyuk gave a vivid report on the activities of navigator Gerasim Izmailov.
Izmailov was not only the first to draw up a map of Northern Alaska and the Aleutians, but also introduced it to the famous participant in the round-the-world expedition, James Cook. But Izmailov’s meeting with D. Cook took place 220 years ago. Even then, Russia’s priority in the discovery and development of Alaska was established. And yet the theme of war lived in him. This topic is sacred to him, and Leonid Mikhailovich collected materials bit by bit to tell not only about the battle for Stalingrad, in which he became a participant at the age of 15, but also about those with whom his front-line fate brought him together, about unfairly forgotten heroes. "Kotluban"- these are the writer’s first memories of the war, his military experience. The entire division was destroyed at Kotluban, but it completed its task - it pulled the fascist troops away from the city. And “Kotluban” is the author’s attitude towards war. On the Commanders he met the son of Colonel Dmitry Ilyich Chugunkov. He was mentioned six times in the orders of the commander-in-chief during the war, but never became a Hero of the Soviet Union. The resentment for an unrecognized, undeserved hero did not leave Leonid Pasenyuk for many years. The author was very touched by the fate of Colonel Chugunkov and he began to collect materials. And a documentary story was born about one of the true heroes of that terrible war, the brigade commander of the Third Tank Army under the command of Rybalko.
L. Pasenyuk’s books are valuable for their educational value. In addition to the main plot, he will tell you, young readers, a lot of interesting information about the ocean, fish, and sea animals. You will learn about what rocks are made of rocks, what plants and herbs are under your feet, what kind of bird flew overhead. And it will make it so exciting that you will certainly want to see the harsh picturesque shores, breathe the salty Pacific air, feel the mighty wild beauty of the protected region, peer into the pebbles in search of shimmering agate, see with your own eyes a volcanic eruption, feel the approach of a swooping snowy owl.
Those of you who like to look at the globe will read his books with interest and envy, because in them L. Pasenyuk wrote about how he and a detachment of prospectors went in search of diamonds, climbed the Caucasian peaks, descended into the crater of a volcano, watched the cutting whales in Simushir, sailed along the Kuril Islands in order to study volcanic activity on uninhabited islands. And L. Pasenyuk spoke about many other things in his numerous books.
Literature about the work of L.M. Pasenyuk:
Notes on the creativity of Kuban writers / ed. CM. Tarasenkova and V.A. Mikhelson. – Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1957. – From the contents: Leonid Pasenyuk. – P. 75-78.
Kanashkin V. Comprehension of modernity: The character of a contemporary and his moral support / V. Kanashkin. – Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1979.– pp. 59-69.
Writers of Kuban: bibliogr. collection / comp. L.A. Gumenyuk, K.V. Zverev. – Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1980. – From the contents: Pasenyuk Leonid Mikhailovich. – P. 111-114.
Velengurin N. All my life on the road: Leonid Mikhailovich Pasenyuk is 60 years old / N. Velengurin // Kuban. – 1986. – N 12. – P. 83-85.
Velengurin N. Gaze directed towards the sunrise: L.M. Pasenyuk is 70 years old / N. Velengurin // Free Kuban. – 1996. – December 10. – P. 4.
Vasilevskaya T. Leonid Pasenyuk: “The Girl from Kamchatka” was my thorn” / T. Vasilevskaya // Krasnodar News. – 2000. – January 15. – P. 4.
Vasilevskaya T. Leonid Pasenyuk: “The theme of war is sacred to me” / T. Vasilevskaya // Krasnodar News. – 2001. – September 27. – P. 5.
Lobanova E. “My whole life is a walk along the shore...”: Leonid Mikhailovich Pasenyuk turns 75 years old / E. Lobanova // Kuban News. – 2001. – December 11. – P. 4.
Writers of Kuban: bibliogr. reference book / ed. S. Livshitsa. – Part II. – Krasnodar: Shaban, 2004. – From the contents: Leonid Mikhailovich Pasenyuk. – P. 128-136.
Calendar of memorable dates and significant events of the Krasnodar Territory for 2006; artist S. Taranik. – Krasnodar: Range-B, 2005. – P. 137.
ARKHIPOV
Vladimir Afanasyevich
Poet, prose writer, member of the Russian Writers' Union,
Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Poetry,
laureate of the All-Russian Orthodox Literary Prize named after the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky,
three times winner of the Moscow International Poetry Competition “Golden Pen of Russia”,
Honored Worker of Culture of Kuban,
delegate to the congress of the Russian Writers' Union,
awarded with commemorative medals of M. A. Sholokhov,
Marshal G.K. Zhukov
Vladimir Afanasyevich Arkhipov was born on November 11, 1939 in the village of Berdniki, Mukhinsky village council, Zuevsky district, Kirov region. His parents, Efrosinya Nikolaevna and Afanasy Dmitrievich Arkhipov, were simple Vyatka farmers. During the Great Patriotic War, my father went through the battle route from Moscow to Berlin, was wounded three times, and returned home with orders and medals.
Vladimir’s childhood and youth were spent among the pristine northern nature, among the hardworking and open-hearted Vyatka people, which was reflected in his first poetic experiments.
For the first time, poems and stories of a schoolchild from the Vyatka outback appeared in the Zuevsky district newspaper, in the regional “Kirovskaya Pravda”, in the newspaper “Pionerskaya Pravda” and in the magazine “Smena”. In 1964, the first collection “Pioneers” was published.
After graduating from Mukhinskaya secondary school in 1957, Vladimir Arkhipov entered the Kirov College of Agricultural Mechanization.
In 1971 he graduated from the poetry department of the Moscow Literary Institute. Gorky at the Writers' Union of the USSR. From the beginning of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, he worked for the BAM newspaper and walked many taiga kilometers with the first landing forces. After completion of construction, in 1979, he moved to Krasnodar, where for many years he worked in the regional department of culture.
Vladimir Afanasyevich Arkhipov is the author of twenty poetry collections published in Krasnodar, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and Kirov. He is the editor and compiler of the anthology “Poets of Krasnodar”, the collection of young writers “Inspiration”, the almanac “Literary Kuban”, and seven editions of collections of young authors “Winged Swings”.
He is the chairman of the jury of the children's annual city poetry competition, he runs the city literary studio “Inspiration”. Vladimir Arkhipov is called the poet of young hearts in Kuban.
In 1994–1999, three poetry collections were published: “Once Upon a Time, We Loved,” “Severe Tenderness,” and “Love and Faith Will Save You.”
Vladimir Afanasyevich writes about the war not as an eyewitness, but as a grateful descendant who has taken up the baton of memory of the past generation, whose heroes defended the Motherland.
The poem “Swan Fidelity” took first place at the Moscow International Poetry Competition “Golden Pen”, dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory, and its author was named one of the best poets in Russia.
Vladimir Arkhipov’s front is life itself, for which he fights with a poetic pen, being always and everywhere in the forefront. Patriotism, ardor of heart, love of life, and the ability to empathize are characteristic features of Arkhipov’s work.
Three hundred poems about love included in the new poetry collection “Quiet Joy” are a safe-conduct of feelings donated by the poet. Poems about love for the homeland, a woman, parents, granddaughter Varenka, and people he met are divided into cycles in the collection.
Vladimir Afanasyevich knows child psychology well, knows how to get along with young readers, and is happy to meet with them within the walls of children's libraries in the region, involving children in live communication with the help of his poems.
Arkhipov has many poems about the Kuban land, about its outstanding people: “God bless you, Krasnodar”, “Krasnodar is my love”, “Stanitsa Fearless”, “Song of Grigory Ponomarenko”, “Spring of Liberation in Krasnodar” and others.
Vladimir Afanasyevich Arkhipov lives and works in Krasnodar.
Literature about the life and work of V. A. Arkhipov
Avanesova M. Singer of young hearts / M. Avanesova // Krasnodar news. – 2009. – November 11. – P. 4.
Vladimir Afanasyevich Arkhipov // Writers of Kuban: bibliographic collection / ed. V.P. Inappropriate. – Krasnodar, 2000. – P. 9 – 12.
Derkach V. With love for man, with faith in Russia / V. Derkach // Kuban news. – 2001. – April 12. – P. 4.
Rud A. “Happiness is just living!” / A. Rud // Kuban today. – 2015. – February 13. – P. 3.
Sedov N. Let one figure grow, and the second take its time / N. Sedov // Man of Labor. – 2014. – November 13 – 19. – P. 4.
Solovyov G. Journey to the land of childhood / G. Solovyov // Kuban writer. – 2007. – June 6. – P. 8.
Continuing the series of materials about the history of Ekaterinodar, we again turn to the topic of lost heritage. One of the places preserving the historical memory of the city is the All Saints Cemetery, where military, government and public figures were buried in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Some graves are historical and architectural monuments, many have been destroyed, and some can no longer be identified. It was here that famous Kuban writers were buried at different times, but it is currently impossible to find their burial places.
Kuban writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries are united by the fact that they wrote in Ukrainian; they were practically never published in Kuban, and their graves are unknown. Especially for the Yuga.ru portal, Vladimir Begunov collected information about five authors, whose biographies and works will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of Kuban.
Captured chieftain
Acting chieftain Yakov Gerasimovich Kukharenko seems to have nothing to complain about. He is considered the first Kuban writer, there is a memorial plaque dedicated to him in Krasnodar, and in the textbook on Kuban studies for the eighth grade, a story about the life and work of the ataman-writer takes up an entire page. And in his former house there is now the Kuban Literary Museum. However, few Kuban residents have read his books, and finding them is problematic. Kukharenko wrote in the Kuban dialect of the Ukrainian language. His most famous creation is the play “Black Sea Life and Being” (this poetic translation by Professor Viktor Chumachenko is closer to the essence of the work than the generally accepted name “Black Sea Life”) - written in 1836. The play was pushed through the censorship committee by Shevchenko, who was delighted with it, and in general the writers had a strong friendship. The play was staged in Yekaterinodar three years later. This is a comedy with a classic love triangle: Marusya loves Ivan, but he must go with the Cossacks on a campaign against the highlanders. At this time, the girl's mother wants to marry her to a rich old Cossack.
Even before the ataman position, Yakov Kukharenko, in collaboration with Alexander Turenko, wrote the first historical work about the Kuban Cossacks: “Reviews of historical facts about the Black Sea army.” The monograph was ordered by the military chancellery in 1834, but the text was published more than half a century later in the magazine “Kiev Antiquity”. In the century before last, the ataman’s essay “Plastuny” was popular. Here is a fragment from this essay translated by Arkady Slutsky:
“In addition to hunting with a gun, plastuns set all sorts of traps: traps, wooden traps<…>The plastun does not know luxury, he is dressed haphazardly, he hangs around, he is in poverty, but he does not give up his plastining. Tall reeds, broken trees, and in some places bushes protect it. One sees the sky in the floodplains, and even how it looks up; by the clear stars at night he knows his way. In bad weather, gloom - in the wind, which bends the high tops of the reeds. The best hunting is in the wind, both day and night. The wind blows - there is a noise, the reeds rustle, the plastun goes on without hiding. The wind has died down - the soldier has stopped and listens.”
On September 17, 1862, a group of highlanders attacked Kukharenko, who went without an escort to Stavropol. The ataman, wounded twice in the skirmish, was captured. While the mountaineers were bargaining with the Cossacks for a ransom, sixty-three-year-old Kukharenko died of blood loss. The army bought the body of their ataman from the highlanders, and he was buried with honors at the All Saints Cemetery in Yekaterinodar. At the end of the 19th century, relatives reburied Kukharenko’s ashes on Fortress Square in the fence of the Resurrection Church. During the construction of the buildings of the regional clinical hospital named after. Ochapovsky in the 1960s, the churchyard was demolished, and the bones of the first settlers of Ekaterinodar dug out of the ground were taken to a landfill.
Escape from prison
The most talented Kuban author of the 19th century was Vasily Mova. He wrote in Ukrainian under the pseudonym Limansky. Unlike Kukharenko, the Soviet government had nothing to do with the loss of Mova’s burial place. Back in 1910, the Ukrainian poet Mikhailo Obidny made a literary pilgrimage to Yekaterinodar, but was unable to find the writer’s grave at the All Saints Cemetery. Offensive then wrote indignant lines about the unworthy attitude of the city residents towards the memory of the writer.
Vasily Mova was born in 1842 into a Cossack family on the Sladky Liman farm in the Kanevsky district. Here lie the origins of his pseudonym - Limansky. After graduating from the gymnasium, Mova, among several especially capable students, was sent by the Kuban Cossack Army to study at Kharkov University at public expense. But the future writer was not in the mood for science. Due to frequent absences from classes, the army at some point refused to continue paying for the careless student’s education. Even during his student life, Vasily Mova began to actively publish in the press. Upon returning to Yekaterinodar, he worked as a forensic investigator, devoting his free time to literature.
The story “From Our Rodenki (From the Memoirs of a Seminarian)” is one of the few works written in Russian for the Russian-language newspaper “Kharkov”. Here is a fragment from it with the author's punctuation:
“The next day the chisel was delivered to me. Every night I hollowed out the wall, and by morning I covered it lightly with bricks, covered it with clay and covered it with a bed. At four in the morning the matter was over. Now all that remains is to figure out how to get out of the gate. The prospectors took care of this too. Our prisoners carried flour to the bakery, and the ready-made coolies often stood under a canopy—it was through these coolies that the whole thing happened. I carefully crawled out at night, poured half of the flour into the garbage pit, climbed with the bag into the darkest corner and climbed into it there and waited with fear for the morning. This night lasted a long time, I will remember it all my life<…>Dawn appeared<…>Soon they carried me away, me and the sacks of flour. My comrade groaned under me, I felt stuffy: flour got into my mouth and nose, so I almost sneezed twice; right at the gate, a soldier foolishly hit me with his butt, I almost screamed again. They brought the bags and dumped them in the pantry<…>I wait an hour, wait another - there is no one! And the flour is suffocating, the bags are pressing mercilessly on all sides - my death and that’s all! I heard the door creak, someone coughed and said: “Well, you living torment, turn around.”
In 1933, Stepan Erastov, a pensioner from Krasnodar, died in Sukhum. The body of the deceased was brought home and buried in the All Saints Cemetery. In Krasnodar, perhaps he would not have lived to see his age. Erastov was a revolutionary, in tsarist times he spent four years in Siberian exile, but it was not the socialist revolutionaries, in whose ranks he was a member, who came to power in Russia, but the communists. The attitude towards the former Socialist Revolutionary would hardly be tolerant.
However, the writer’s literary heritage is valuable not only and not so much for the author’s revolutionary biography. Stepan Ivanovich Erastov was born in 1856 in Yekaterinodar, in the family of a Russian priest and a Kuban Cossack woman. He studied at the Stavropol gymnasium, and then at Kiev and St. Petersburg universities - in both cities the police considered him unreliable because of his social circle, since even then he was in close contact with Narodnaya Volya members.
In addition to his active political activities, Erastov was an excellent writer of everyday life and promoted the Ukrainian language and culture. He dedicated his memoirs to his hometown. They were published in the magazines “Native Kuban” and “Kuban: Problems of Culture and Informatization” (magazine of the Krasnodar Institute of Culture).
Erastov, like Kukharenko and Mova, wrote in Ukrainian. Here is a fragment from “Memoirs of an old Ekaterinodar resident.” The translation was made by a group of linguists led by Viktor Chumachenko:
“However, I loved the Old Bazaar and had my joys there. As a child, I wandered around the bazaar and listened to the music of the bazaar hubbub and sounds. The traders invited me to their tents, luring me with delicious gingerbread cookies, poppies, and pickles; the sweet lovers loudly called out: “Come on, those sweet lovers! Come on those sweet lovers!”, which immediately hissed in the fragrant oil in the frying pan. (Oh, I wish I had a sweet tooth now...). And there they offered borscht with lard, pies with liver; bagel makers squeal in thin voices about bagels with poppy seeds, fishermen sedately point to huge piles of ram, chabak and other fish; the gypsies loudly praise their goods. Each to their own. And all this formed into a dense vocal group, creating a kind of music. And I especially loved the time before evening, when the sun was setting and when working people from all over the market gathered for rest and dinner. Tired people sat in groups on benches or on the ground and had a leisurely, quiet conversation. And I looked at the tired, mustachioed faces and listened to the conversations.”
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The hunted philanthropist
Another unknown grave at the All Saints Cemetery belongs to the poet and writer Yakov Zharko, who also wrote in Ukrainian. In 1912, in the collection “Ekaterinodars”, Zharko ridiculed the city duma and local officials with satirical poems. After Fyodor's death, Kovalenko became director of the art gallery. In 1928, when the Museum of the Revolution was organized in Krasnodar, Zharko donated his collection of icons to the Christian religion department.
In the 30s, the poet was persecuted by the OGPU. Zharko’s son was sent to the camps to build the White Sea Canal, Yakov Vasilyevich himself was subjected to arrests and searches several times, during which many of his manuscripts were lost. Zharko, along with Erastov and Petliura, was a member of the revolutionary Ukrainian party. This happened, however, before the revolution, but the security officers were of little interest in this detail. The poet spent several weeks in a Krasnodar prison, where investigators tried to extort confessions of espionage and counter-revolutionary activities from him. Zharko was released, but his heart could not stand it, and he soon died.
Yakov Zharko's books were never translated into Russian. The smallest ones were published in literary magazines and anthologies. For example, an autobiography written at the end of his life for a collection of poems, which at the last moment they decided not to publish. Here is a fragment from it, where the author recalls his youth at the end of the 19th century:
“I completed my apprenticeship at a paramedic school and received the right to work as a teacher. I dreamed of settling somewhere in a village and living among the common people. But it didn't work! — the governor “did not approve the position.” I lived with my father. Father and mother were getting old. I coughed. They didn't let me go anywhere. Mom experienced so much grief, the death of her children, and therefore did not want to listen to me going somewhere. They bought a cow... They fed me and gave me warm milk until I wanted... Maybe that’s why I’m still alive” (“About Myself”, 1933).
The unpublished story about the White Sea Canal
Perhaps Tikhon Strokun also rests somewhere in the All Saints Cemetery. He was a poet-bandura player who performed songs on regional radio in the 30s of the 20th century. Strokun played a huge fifty-string bandura and made these musical instruments himself. Contemporaries called him an outstanding bandura player. In 1931, he graduated from the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology of the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute, taught Ukrainian language and literature, published poetry and prose in Ukrainian. In 1933, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years in the camps for counter-revolutionary activities. Like Zharko’s son, Strokun built the White Sea Canal during his imprisonment. Tikhon Strokun returned to Krasnodar only after the war, working as a Russian language teacher and librarian. His criminal file contains a book about the construction of the White Sea Canal, written in the zone. At one time, fragments from it and notes from the case were prepared for publication, but it never came to publication.
Professor Viktor Chumachenko, who read the manuscript, says:
“The story ended with a scene where the prisoners are standing on the shore, the first steamer is sailing along the waters of the White Sea Canal, and they are shouting: “Glory to Comrade Stalin! Glory to Comrade Yagoda!” Strokun, like many, believed that if he wrote such a panegyric to the leaders, he would be released.”
By the way, the KGB archive also revealed the pseudonym unknown to literary scholars under which Tikhon Strokun published - Uncle Gavrila.
The author of the article was unable to find Strokun’s name in the archival lists of the All Saints Cemetery. The official list of burials ends on January 3, 1965; Tikhon Strokun died on July 20 of the same year. Whether he was buried with his relatives after the cemetery was closed or his grave is located in the then only open Slavic Cemetery is unknown.
They also tried to find the poet’s surname using the lists of burials compiled in 1985-1986 by the custodian of the All Saints Cemetery from the words of relatives. These lists are in the city archives. But it is unlikely that it is possible to master 41 handwritten volumes filled in haphazardly, sometimes with illegible handwriting. So at the moment there is no clear evidence of the poet’s resting place.
Huge trees are destroying the gravestones of the All Saints Cemetery with their roots, everything is overgrown with grass, and desolation reigns in the graveyard. Perhaps in a few years there will be nothing left to save. The graves of the writers discussed in this article may no longer be found, but other ancient tombstones may be lost, reminiscent of people whose lives became part of the city's history.
Ministry of Labor and Social Development
Krasnodar region
State government social service institution
Krasnodar Territory "Slavic Social Rehabilitation Center
for minors"
Outline
educational lesson on the topic
"Kuban writers and poets".
ModuleII(8-13 years old) "I'm getting older"
Teacher Nikolaenko O.N.
village State Farm
Slavyansky district
Subject: « Kuban writers and poets".
Goals:
educational : introduce children to writers and poets of our region;
developing : develop interest in the literature of the native land and the desire to study it;
educational : raise kind, sympathetic and well-read children;
Equipment : portraits of K. Oboyshchikov, V. Nepodoba, Varvara Bardadym, V. Nesterenko and 2-3 others, poems, articles.
Form: information dispute.
Progress of the lesson.
1) – Friends!
Our region - Kuban - is rich!
In it the fields grow fat,
Bread is poured into bins,
New houses are being built
Cars are built, steel is forged,
Comfortable furniture is created…
The creators of all these good deeds are
Craftsmen, glorious Kuban people.
They are wizards of work, always the first in work.
V. Nesterenko.
The Krasnodar region is blessed and glorious - the land of agriculture, higher educational institutions and many research institutes, the land of first-class resorts and magnificent landscapes, the land of two southern seas: the Black and Azov. It is hardly possible to name a place in the country, a city, a region, or a region, where they would not use products from Krasnodar factories, products from the light and food industries of Kuban. Kuban produces durum and valuable varieties of wheat, rice, fruits, vegetables, excellent tea, sugar, etc. More than one hundred agricultural crops are cultivated on Kuban land. crops
But the Kuban land is famous not only for its productive fields, gardens, melons and vegetables; it is also rich in noble people, whose labor exploits are known far beyond the borders of the region.
The history of the Krasnodar region is interesting and eventful. There is something to show and tell from the past and present of Kuban. Many names of outstanding writers are associated with Kuban: A. Pushkin, Yu. Lermontov, L. Tolstoy, M. Gorky, A. Fadeev, A. Tolstoy and others.
Our Kuban poets and writers I. Varavva, V. Ya. Nepodoba, K. Oboishchikov, A. Piven and others do not remain in debt. Composers of Kuban wrote music to many poems of our poets.
2) Kronid Upholsterers.
He began writing his first poems in 4th grade. The Krasnodar book publishing house published 13 poetry collections, 5 of them for children. In 1993, he published a lyrical report “Journey around the Motherland,” about the people of the Rodina collective farm in the Ust-Labinsk region. In second grade you read the book “Pedestrian Bunny.”
Kuban is such a land.
Kuban-land is like this:
Only the first ray will slide -
And the field comes alive
And the thunder of the earth floats,
And the plow cuts the earth,
Like butter.
All year round
Something is being sown here,
And they remove something
And something is blooming.
Kuban is a land like this:
From edge to edge
Two Denmarks will enter.
Washed by the seas
Hidden in the forests
Wheat fields
Looking to the heavens.
And the snowy peaks -
Like a gray-haired warrior,
Like the wisdom of antiquity.
Kuban is a land like this:
It contains the glory of battle
And the glory of labor
Bonded with cement.
Blooms in Novorossiysk
Holy Land.
And, like obelisks,
The poplars froze.
Kuban is a land like this:
From golden bread,
Steppe side.
She greets guests
And sings songs
And opens the soul
Transparent to the bottom.
Fire Cossack,
Beautiful, young,
Kuban land is like this:
One day he will caress you -
You will love forever!
3) Vadim Nepodoba.
This Kuban poet dedicated his collection of poems “The Sun Woke Up” to his daughter Dasha. Reading them in 2nd grade, you were convinced that they help you feel and see the beauty of living nature, understand what real work, homeland, and family are. He is currently the author of 14 books of poetry and prose for adults and children.
In zoo.
Me and dad at the zoo
Yesterday it was midday.
Deer, leopards
They looked at me.
The monkey called me
With a baby on my back.
The bear broke the bars,
To come to me.
The tiger cub roared close
And he offered his paw.
Bowed low
There is an elephant in front of me.
The little foxes ran up
And they stood at the door...
Well how did they know
That I love animals!
counting rhyme
One, two, three, four, five.
I went to bed to sleep.
I don't need bye-bye-
I consider myself
To sleep soundly, soundly:
One two three four five:
Once a little bunny fell asleep in the snow,
Two - the mouse fell asleep in the hole.
Three bullfinches sleep under the roof,
To their places in the apartment
All four toys are sleeping.
The moon sleeps on a cloud - five.
Dasha also wants to sleep.
4) Varvara Bardadym
This Kuban poetess wrote a very funny and cheerful collection of poems for children, “Housewife”. All her poems are permeated with love for children, their little sorrows and joys.
Don't be sad.
nods his head to me
Blue bell.
I leaned towards him
He doesn't call
Why?
Maybe it's boring to be alone?
Don't be sad!
The sadness will pass
In the morning the sun will rise.
And it will dance over you
The moth is mischievous.
And the bees will circle
The round dance is cheerful,
And a flock of titmice
He will shout as he flies by:
Good morning!
Hello!
You will smile back
And you will understand - you can’t be sad,
If you have friends nearby.
Dance.
My daughter cried for an hour.
I didn't want to listen to my mother.
She walked away: she was tired.
My daughter stopped crying.
Dad says to her jokingly:
Hey, cry for another minute!
The daughter waved her hands:
I'm not crying to you - mom!
Pilot.
I was a sailor yesterday
And I was the driver.
Today's new game:
Hands are like wings...
I spread them out -
Turned into an airplane.
I'm flying down the street.
Grandma is worried
And flies after me,
And behind the grandmother is the grandfather,
And behind grandfather Trezor.
I dive into the yard
I'm landing
For the peas, for the garden.
5) V. Nesterenko.
This poet lives and was born in the village of Bryukhovetskaya, the author of 6 children's books. He understands well the life of rural children, and he talks about them in his collection of poems “Horse”.
Ferris wheel.
The best day is Sunday -
It's finally here!
Ferris wheel -
How I dreamed about him!
I'm rising higher and higher
above my village -
I hear more and more
the smell of ripe fields.
Here is a familiar river -
At the distant boundary-
Dark blue ring
It lies out in the open.
Cheerful singing of birds
It rushes towards the sun, ringing...
Ferris wheel
Puts me down.
Ferris wheel -
We need to tell adults -
Wheel of surprise
I ask you to call.
Friends.
Polkan and I don’t miss you,
We are great friends with him!
We run and bark together -
We can't live without each other.
I wear Polkan's bones,
And when night comes,
The dog asks:
I would like to visit you...
How to help a shaggy one?..
Let the mongrel live in the booth!
They keep telling me, but I keep getting angry:
Know, Polkan, it’s very hard for me...
I'll move in with you.
Freezing.
At the end of October,
Without asking permission,
Having interrupted the barriers
From a heap of clouds,
Snuck into the autumn
Miracle Domain
Frost, which
He was very, prickly.
And autumn sighed
Anxious, tired,
And there was leaf fall
Lonely-lonely
And the black field
It became silver
And the mirror of the puddle
I glued the ice together.
6) We listened to the poems of only some of our fellow countrymen, found out what books we can read in our spare time, did you like it? (children's answers)
And now we will each draw what he remembers most! Tell us what's in your drawings!
What do you remember most from the poems you heard, and why?
(answers from all children)
Our conversation has come to an end, thank you for giving me pleasure with your answers and pictures!
Kuban
writers - front-line soldiers
Biobibliographic review for teenagers
and remember all the campaigns and battles:
soldiers, lieutenants, generals -
My great comrades.
On all fronts
in their smoky overcoats
for the honor of the native desecrated land
you fought, brother soldiers,
Kuban our glorious sons.
Kronid Upholsterers.
The fate of many Kuban writers was the Great Patriotic War. This review reflects only a small circle of writers who fought at the front. War is a long test of a person to the limit of his strength, of all human capabilities. Each of the Kuban writers had their own war, their own front. Everyone knows their truth about the war and shares it with the new generation. But their books are not only about war - they are about human life, about time, about themselves, about others.
Kuban writers traversed difficult roads at the front:
Oboishchikov Kronid Aleksandrovich,
Yuri Abdashev was born on November 27, 1923 in Harbin in Manchuria. At that time, Harbin was the spiritual center of Russian emigration in the East. This is a unique Russian city located on the territory of another country. Yura's father served on the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER). The writer's children's world according to him
to my own memories it was beautiful and seemed unshakable. But after the CER was sold in 1936, the Abdashev family returned to Russia. A year later, the father was arrested and shot, the mother was exiled to the Karaganda camps for 10 years. Both would be rehabilitated in 1957. Thirteen-year-old Yura was sent to the Verkhoturye closed labor colony in the Northern Urals. After school, Yuri Abdashev entered the English department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute. But the outbreak of war disrupted his plans. From the student audience, Abdashev stepped into the trenches and trenches.
At the beginning of October 1941, he volunteered for the front and took part in the winter offensive near Moscow. The Battle of Moscow wrote its pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War. The Moscow battle thwarted Hitler's plans for a lightning war. After graduating from artillery school in 1942, Abdashev was assigned to the Caucasus. He commanded a platoon and then a battery in an anti-tank fighter regiment that liberated Kuban from the Nazi invaders.
During the war, Yuri Abdashev was seriously wounded twice. He received his first wound near Smolensk, the second while commanding a battery of forty-fives near the station. Crimean in 1943. Awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and military medals.
Writers who went through war, like no one else, know how to appreciate peace and fight for it. The war stories “Triple Barrier” and “Far from War” were published in the magazine “Youth”. In Yuri Abdashev’s story “Far from War” you meet living, human characters. The work is dedicated to young soldiers, military school cadets. Before our eyes, boys turn into officers. Everyone learns to evaluate themselves and their actions by the standard of war. None of these guys know what is predetermined for them by front-line fate tomorrow, although it has already decided: life for some, death for others.
The story “Triple Barrier” is also about the Great Patriotic War. Events take place in the Caucasus mountains. Three unfired soldiers were left as a barrier on a high mountain pass in the difficult year of 1942. The purpose of the barrier is not to allow enemy scouts and saboteurs to pass along the narrow shepherd path. An ordinary episode of the war, but for three soldiers it was a great test of fortitude. For fighters, the pass becomes not only a point on the map, it is a height that a person experiences only once in his life. They died one after another, honestly fulfilling their soldier's duty.
Far from the war /Yu. Abdashev/Deep Cyclone: stories, stories. – Krasnodar: Krasnodar book. publishing house, 1983.-431 p. – (Kuban prose)
Triple screen: a story. - Krasnodar: Krasnodar. Izvestia, 1994.-71p.
Ivan Belyakov was born on December 8 back in 1915 of the last century in the village of Mokry Maidan, Gorky Region. When the Great Patriotic War began, Ivan was a third-year student at the Literary Institute in Moscow.
Without hesitation, Ivan Belyakov goes to the front. These were years of testing for the whole country, these were also years of testing for the young poet, who went from an ordinary soldier to an officer, first at the headquarters of the 49th Rifle Corps, then, after being wounded, during restoration work in the railway troops. Wherever the war took Ivan Belyakov - a company technician, a senior battalion technician, a correspondent for the newspaper "Military Railwayman" - his love of poetry and the desire to create did not leave him.
After the end of the bloody war, the military officer began to write kind, bright books for children about “blue-eyed boys” and cheerful girls. He wanted them to know about the dead peers who never managed to become adults. This is how poems appeared about the Kuban Cossack Petya Chikildin from the famous Kochubey detachment, about Kolya Pobirashko, a young intelligence officer from the village of Shabelsky. Belyakov managed to show in the little heroes an adult understanding of courage and bravery in the name of the Motherland.
In 1970, the Krasnodar book publishing house published a book of poems by I. Belyakov “Eternal Youth”. In it, he talked about the pioneers and Komsomol members who died in battles for their Motherland on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.
In the book “Burn, Bonfire!” two poems. The poem “The Very First” is dedicated to test pilot Grigory Bakhchivandzhi from the village of Brinkovskaya. It was he who was entrusted with testing the first interceptor jet fighter, which opened a new era in the history of aviation. Grigory Bakhchivandzhi had already shown his skill as a fighter pilot in the first months of the war; more than one fascist plane was shot down on his account.
Another poem, “A Word about a Mother,” is dedicated to a Russian woman, Kuban collective farmer Epistinia Fedorovna Stepanova, who lost nine sons in the war. The poet portrays a persistent, courageous character and wants “every son and every grandson” to know about this feat.
An excerpt from the poem was published in the magazine “Peasant Woman” in 1971. For this work the poet was awarded a literary prize. Composer N. Khlopkov wrote an oratorio based on the text “Tales about a Mother”.
Belyakov youth: poems. - Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1965.-103 p.: ill.
Belyakov, fire: poems. - Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1975.-87 p.: ill.
Ivan Varabbas was born on February 5th. Novobataisk, Rostov region. Ivan Varabbas is known and proud of him in Kuban. The Krasnodar Regional Youth Library is named after him.
Ivan Varabbas is a laureate of the A. Tvardovsky “Vasily Terkin” literary prize. Barabbas was the prototype of one of the main characters in the legendary Soviet film “Officers”.
interesting for its twists of fate. Ivan finishes tenth grade at school in St. Starominskaya, and the battles are already underway near Rostov and Kushchevskaya, very close. At the graduation party, young Barabbas reads his farewell lyric poems. He becomes a fighter in the regional destruction battalion, having been the last to retreat from the village, in the foothills of the Caucasus he receives a baptism of fire near the village of Khadyzhenskaya, in the valley of the Pshish River. “I admit that more than anything else in the world - due to my freedom-loving character, which I inherited from the Cossack family - I feared fascist captivity. Twice he emerged unharmed from an iron encirclement when only a few remained alive. It was burning and was covered with earth from an exploding bomb...”
In the battle for the Caucasus, the young poet, with the rank of private infantry rifleman and company mortar gunner, in the spring of 1943, took part in breaking through the enemy’s “Blue Line”, in the assault on the heights of “Hill of Heroes”. Wounds, hospital and again - the front: battles for the liberation of Novorossiysk, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland. As a twenty-year-old sergeant in May 1945, the young poet Barabbas left his first autograph on the wall of the Reichstag, in defeated enemy Berlin. Of course, the events of the war do not leave I. Barabbas indifferent, his poems are published, sink into the souls of readers, and are remembered for their lyricism.
I. Varabbas published his first poems in 1942. The eighteen-year-old machine gunner wrote about what his soul was full of, about battles, comrades, about faith in victory. Since 1943, his poems began to appear regularly in the army press. The lyrical hero of Ivan Varabbas is his peer, one of those whom the “dusty path” called to the battlefields.
Wheels clattered, carriages creaked alarmingly.
Spring returned to the native Cossack lands.
The planet was shaking. On the roof of a green car
My soldier's youth rushed across the world.
With the sharp gaze of a poet and warrior, Ivan Varabbas saw war in all its manifestations. So, repelling a tank attack, “soldiers sank to the bottom, holding grenades in their sleeves... some with a yellow speck of a medal, some with a copper bullet in their head.” Here is a short story about a boy who would probably become a wonderful artist. But I didn't have to. A guy grabbed hold of an enemy tank...” he hit all five grenades at him, and he fell on the plantain. He honestly loved his homeland... He was a talented artist"
Barabbas IF. The hubbub of the wild field: poems and poems. - Krasnodar: Sov. Kuban, 200.-607 p.
Barabbas IF. Eagle flocks: poems.- M.: Sovremennik, 1985.-175 p.
Pyotr Karpovich Ignatov lived a great life. There was a lot in it - the Bolshevik underground, exile, participation in the formation of Red Guard detachments, in the ranks of the workers' militia
Ignatov fights bandits. In 1940, Pyotr Karpovich was appointed deputy director of the Krasnodar Institute of Chemical Technology. And then the war began.
In August 1942, the Nazis approached Krasnodar, and the threat of occupation loomed over Kuban. 86 partisan detachments were organized in the region. also received the task of creating a partisan detachment of miners to fight the Nazis. Under the name "Dad" he was appointed commander of this detachment. Together with him, his sons became partisans: an engineer at the Glavmargarin plant, Evgeniy, and a ninth-grade student, Geniy, as well as his wife, Elena Ivanovna. On one of the missions, while mining the railway, Ignatov’s sons heroically died. In 1943, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, brothers Evgeniy and Geniy Ignatov were posthumously awarded the title of Heroes of the Soviet Union. The desire to tell about the feat of their children, their fellow partisans, all those who did not bow their heads before the hated enemy, forced me to take up the pen. His books - “The Life of a Common Man”, “Notes of a Partisan”, “Our Sons”, “Hero Brothers”, “Underground of Krasnodar” - are original notes of a man who has lived, seen, and suffered a lot. At the same time, these are not memoirs, but literary works that summarize and capture the feat of many participants in the partisan people's war.
In “Notes of a Partisan,” partisan warfare with its dangers and risks is depicted in the nobility of exploits and the excitement of adventure. The atmosphere of the forests in the Kuban foothills is accurately conveyed. Boar trails, mountain rivers, ambushes, danger at every step, the unequal struggle of one against many - all this puts the story among military adventures.
The book "The Blue Line" is also based on documentary material. The Germans called the “Blue Line” their system of powerful field defensive structures that separated Kuban from Taman. It stretches across the entire Taman Peninsula, resting its left flank on the Azov floodplains, and its right flank on the shore of the Black Sea.
These books are among those books that will never become outdated. The works have been translated into 16 languages. Ignatov’s works are not just a family chronicle. This is, first of all, a reflection of the patriotic impulse of the Soviet people, who stood up, young and old, to defend their homeland.
Ignatov - heroes: a story. - Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 19 p.
Ignatov line: a story. - Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1983.-176 p.
Ignatov of the partisan: stories. - M.: Moskovsky Rabochiy, 1973.-696 p.
Ignatov of Krasnodar: a story. - Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1982.-256 p.
came to literature from the Great Patriotic War and brought with him the lofty and harsh truth about the young men who stepped into the flames of the battle against fascism right from school
benches. The Great Patriotic War found him in the army. Already in June 1941, Lieutenant Kasparov took part in battles with the Nazis. 1941 was the most tragic period of the war. Kasparov also had to go through a lot. He was wounded, shell-shocked, captured, and escaped. He fought with the Nazis in a partisan detachment, returned to the active army, commanded a mortar unit, and served in regimental reconnaissance.
When, after the hospital, he returned to his native Armavir, his chest was decorated with military awards: the Order of the Red Star, medals “For Courage”, “For the Capture of Warsaw” and others.
Boris Kasparov dedicated his first stories “The End of Nairi”, “Ruby Ring”, “Towards the Sun” to military themes. They were published in the magazine "Soviet Warrior". He submitted these and other publications to a competition at the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, where he entered in 1949.
Since 1958, his books have been published one after another: “On the West Bank”, “Dürer’s Copy”, “Twelve Months”, “Ashes and Sand”, “Liszt’s Rhapsody”, “The Stars Shine for All”, which were included in children's reading circle. In these stories, B. Kasparov showed himself to be a master of a sharp plot, able to interest the reader. But the detective story is not the most important thing in Kasparov’s work. The writer manifests himself as a person “who knows how to have an intimate conversation with the reader, raising pressing moral questions.” His stories are permeated with ardent love for the Motherland; he wrote about brave, kind and courageous people, true patriots of their Fatherland.
This focus in the writer’s work was clearly manifested in his plays “Memory”, “The Seventh Day”, “Dragon’s Teeth”. In the play “The Seventh Day” B. Kasparov spoke about the most difficult first days of the war. His plays were performed with success in the Armavir and Krasnodar drama theaters. He made an authorized translation into Russian of the novel “The Mourned are Not Waited for” by the Adyghe writer Iskhak Mashbash.
“Copy of Durer” is perhaps the most famous work of B. Kasparov. The story is written so vividly and talentedly that the events described in it are perceived as really happening. In May 1945, in the first post-war days, a young Red Army officer was appointed assistant commandant in a small German town to help local residents establish a peaceful life. But an unpleasant event occurs: the manager of the Grunberg estate shot himself. This man survived the fascist regime, was loyal to Soviet power, and suddenly shot himself when the city was liberated from the Nazis. "Murder or suicide?" - the senior lieutenant asks himself a question and begins his own investigation. The mysterious events associated with a copy of a painting by Albrecht Dürer, the great German Renaissance painter, cannot but captivate the reader. The plot of the book echoes the real story of the rescue of paintings from the Dresden Gallery and other treasures of world art by Soviet soldiers.
Durer's Kasparov: a story.- Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1978.-191 p.: ill.
Kasparov Liszt: a story.- Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1965.-263 p.
The writer's childhood and early youth were spent in the village of Bogorodskaya Repyevka and in his hometown of Ulyanovsk, where he was born on December 30, 1924. The poetic world of Nikolai Krasno
you decided early. The rural children's freedom and the charm of the native Volga town, ancient Simbirsk, with its brilliant literary traditions since Pushkin's times, with the Karamzin library - the “Palace of Books”, which became the second home of the young poet from the age of 12, remained forever in my soul. The first literary publication was precisely at this age - poems in the newspaper “Be Ready!”, a little later - in “Pionerskaya Pravda”. And he had a favorite literature teacher - Vera Petrovna Yudina. She instilled in him a great love for Pushkin, from the fifth grade she collected pieces of paper with a “test of the pen” of her sponsor, promising to “publish Kolya Krasnov’s poems as a separate book upon graduation from high school.” But... as we say now, tomorrow there was a war.
In 1943, after graduating from school, N. Krasnov worked at a defense plant as a toolmaker, and in the same year he became a soldier. He fought on the Leningrad Front and was seriously wounded during the storming of Vyborg. Nikolai Krasnov has military awards: Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, medal “For Courage” and others.
War for Nikolai Krasnov is a soldier’s thorny roads. The front, offensive battles, wounds, hospitals... A picture of the life of our people fighting against fascism appeared before his eyes. “I was a drop in that big sea,” he would later write. The national feat during the Great Patriotic War became the main theme in his work. The author admits in his interviews that no matter how many years have passed since then, the front-line events are as fresh in his memory as if it were yesterday. Nikolai Stepanovich talks about an amazing incident that influenced his fate: “The commander of a machine-gun company after the battle saw among the dead soldiers someone very similar to me. And my machine gunner friends confirmed that it was me. And I stood at the mass grave, where my name was on the list of the dead. I knew some of those buried here... And I cry, talking about them all, about that unknown boy mistakenly buried under my name. Like every soldier, someone's son, brother or loved one. In my imagination, I often hear his mother, his bride, crying, and my heart clench with unbearable pain.”
The impressions of the wartime became the writer’s main spiritual wealth. And, apparently, it is no coincidence that the classic of Russian literature was the first to appreciate the poetry of Nikolai Krasnov. In 1947, he presented a poetic selection of the young writer with a short preface in Literaturnaya Gazeta, and contributed to his admission to the Union of Writers of Russia. And soon there was a personal meeting with Alexander Trifonovich. In one of N. Krasnov’s books there are wonderful words about the influence of this meeting on his work. “I, like a bird before a long journey, was waiting for a fair wind. And he waited. And he picked me up."
In one of his poems, Nikolai Krasnov recalls his old letters scattered all over the world, both “to friends who did not return from the war, and to his beloved who left for another”...
I won't mince a word.
I can only add,
And again
I won't lie a single line...
These words can rightfully be attributed to the entire work of the poet and prose writer Krasnov. Each of his poems, each story is a kind of letter to the reader, artless and confidential. Nothing is made up here, everything comes from the heart, everything is about what has been experienced, about what has been suffered. Memory of the war, love for people, native places, for everything pure and beautiful. Reading his works, we feel a man of great soul, sincere and kind. Life, as it is, appears from every page.
On the seven winds: poems and poems. - M.: Sovremennik, 1976.-94p.
Holiday on our street: Stories, stories. - Krasnodar, Sov. Kuban, 2005.-351 p.
Kronid Aleksandrovich was born on April 10, 1920 in the village of Tatsinskaya, Rostov region. My childhood and school years were spent in the Don and Kuban. Lived in Bryukhovetskaya, Kropotkin, Armavir,
Novorossiysk. After graduating from the Krasnodar Military Aviation School at the end of 1940, he was sent to the bomber regiment of the Odessa Military District. WITH
On the first day of the war, as an aircraft navigator, he takes part in combat operations on the Bessarabia, Southwestern Fronts and the Northern Fleet, where the regiment, in the form of two-seat fighters, was transferred in the summer of 1942 to guard Allied convoys.
Kronid the upholsterers completed forty-one combat missions in total. Then, from 1944 until the end of the war, as a squadron navigator, he ferried aircraft from Siberian and Transcaucasian airfields to active combat regiments of the Baltic and Northern fleets. Awarded three orders and fifteen medals, including one English.
In 1960, K. Oboishchikov retired to the reserve with the rank of major in the Far East, where he served as a senior navigator for air defense fighter aircraft. There, for the interception of an American spy plane "Lockheed-U-2", by order of the commander of the Air Defense Agency, the marshal was awarded a valuable gift.
The first poem by eighth-grader Kronid Oboyshchikov, “The Death of the Stratostat,” was published in the newspaper “Armavir Commune” in 1936. But the beginning of his creative biography dates back to the post-war years, when the poet began to be systematically published in army and navy newspapers, in the magazines “Znamya”, “Soviet Warrior”, “Far East”, “Estonia”
In 1951, K. Oboyshchikov was a delegate from the Baltic Fleet at the 2nd All-Union Meeting of Young Writers. In 1963, the first collection of poems, “Anxious Happiness,” was published in Krasnodar, and there were fourteen in total, five of which were for children.
Kronid Oboishchikov is one of the authors and compilers of books about Heroes of the Soviet Union, two operettas, and many songs written by Kuban composers Gr. Ponomarenko, V. Ponomariov. The winged warrior was Kronid Upholsterers. Addressing his native land, he writes:
My dear land, you are all on this map -
The blue of lakes, roads and ridges.
I left my school desk to fly,
To see you from above.
Combat aviation and the blue vastness of the skies became both life and poetry for him. His hero knows his place in the war. He understands that it is impossible to fight without him:
The weather is bad,
And Headquarters, nervously, waits,
And infantry dug into the ground
He won't go on the attack without us.
Military routes took him over Kiev, and over the Sula River, and over Leningrad, and over the Barents Sea, and over the Baltic states. Like other front-line poets, K. Oboishchikov more than once turns to the image of a soldier’s mother. They, mothers, had the most bitter fate - to see off their sons to war and receive a funeral.
When friends go to the common grave
We had to bury
We took a soldier's oath
Don't forget their mothers.
He writes “A Word to the Mother,” dedicating it to Matryona Konstantinovna Zikran, the mother of the Hero of the Soviet Union, who died a heroic death; writes the poem “Mother” - in memory of Epistinia Fedorovna Stepanova.
This year is the year of the 65th anniversary of the great Victory. And today, at memorial obelisks and memorials, next to veterans and the younger generation, literary heroes, flesh and blood of the living and the fallen, stand in invisible formation.
A radiance more magical than the stars: A poetic wreath to the Heroes of Kuban. – Krasnodar: Sov. Kuban, 2001.-192 p.
Personalized weapon: Poems. - Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1970.-127 p.
We were: stories, novels, poems. - Krasnodar: Sov. Kuban, 2001.-192 p.
Victory Salute: I dedicate to the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War...: poems. - Krasnodar: Kuban Periodicals, 2005.-192 p.
born on August 3 in the village of Tamansk, in the family of a veterinarian. Later, he and his parents moved to the city of Baku, where he graduated from second-level school. Vasily Popov worked at the oil field, from where he was on a Komsomol voucher
sent to study at the Air Force School named after. All-Russian Central Executive Committee in Tashkent, which he successfully graduated from in 1930.
The young pilot served in Central Asia, in the Mary mountains, the city of Bukhara, and took part in battles with the Basmachi. At the same time, Vasily Alekseevich became interested in literary creativity. His essays about pilots are published. For health reasons, he was sent on a year's leave, worked in the police, in regional and city newspapers in the Gorky region and Moscow region, and was a correspondent for the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union. In 1936, the young writer published his first book in Tashkent - the story “Aces”.
In the years Vasily "Alekseevich was again drafted into the ranks of the air force. He participated in military operations at Khalkhin Gol, flew in the skies of Finland, Western Belarus. On the third day of the Great Patriotic War he already fought with the fascist invaders, defended the skies of Moscow, flew to Belarusian partisans.In 1942, the command of the Red Army was sent to the fighting Yugoslavia, to the People's Liberation Army of Josip Broz Tito.
He fought in the skies of Yugoslavia for more than a year and was awarded the highest Yugoslav military Order of Freedom for his military services. When the Germans bombed a partisan airfield, he was seriously shell-shocked and evacuated to his homeland.
After long treatment, in the fall of 1943, Vasily Alekseevich was declared unfit for military service and demobilized. For military services in battles with the Nazi invaders, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, two Orders of the Patriotic War and nine medals.
Popov went to work for the Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper as a deputy editor of the field editorial office and as his own correspondent.
Vasily Alekseevich Popov has 30 books published in our country. For a series of stories about the major, he was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Among the books he wrote for children and youth are “Castle of the Iron Knight”, “Lilac Island”, “Tales of the Brave”, “Republic of Nine Stars”, “Alien Trace”, “They Bringing Dawn Closer”.
In 1947, the adventure story “The Castle of the Iron Knight” was published, telling about the trials that befell twelve-year-old children during the war. With unflagging interest and lively participation, the reader follows the fate of the heroes: a girl from a Ukrainian village and a boy from near Bryansk. Along with their senior comrades, they entered into the fight against the carefully clandestine underground fascist organization “Werewolf” - “Werewolf”. Later, this story was included in the collection “Tales of the Brave” under a new title - “Wolf’s Lair”.
The writer dedicated the story “They Bringing Dawn Closer” to the young Anapa underground fighters who fought against the fascist occupiers during the Great Patriotic War. “I want,” the author wrote, “for Katya Solovyanova, Aza Grigoriadi, Vladik Kashirin and their military friends to live forever in the people’s memory and teach new generations of perseverance, courage, and devotion to their Motherland.” For this story, Vasily Alekseevich received the title of laureate of the regional literary prize named after N. Ostrovsky.
Popov Kuzmenko and other stories.- Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1980.-155 p.: ill.
The priests were approaching dawn. Krasnodar: Book. publishing house, 1983.-143 p.
Georgy Vladimirovich Sokolov was born on December 3, 1911 in the village of Kochkar, Chelyabinsk Region. In 1930, on a Komsomol voucher, he went to the construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant.
lurgical plant. Since the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he has been in the active army. He was a unit commissar, a reconnaissance company commander, and worked in the editorial offices of front-line newspapers.
Memories of the heroic battles on Malaya Zemlya, about living and dead comrades in arms formed the basis of the book “We are from Malaya Zemlya,” which was reprinted many times in our country and abroad. This is a collection of documentaries
new short stories. They contain more than two hundred names of heroes. Everything that the paratroopers experienced, Sokolov also experienced. The author learned firsthand, not from archival data, a combat life full of dangers.
He participated in attacks and night searches, in hand-to-hand combat and raids behind enemy lines. On Malaya Zemlya he received two wounds and was shell-shocked. A separate reconnaissance company, commanded by Captain Sokolov, landed on Myskhako following the detachment of Major Caesar Kunikov and in the first month of fighting alone destroyed more than a hundred Nazis and brought up to two dozen prisoners. By the way, Sokolov’s personal account includes fifty-six fascist soldiers and officers who were destroyed by him in hand-to-hand combat during two and a half years of work in intelligence - first as a commissar, then as a commander of a separate reconnaissance company. Until the very end of the heroic epic, all seven long months of battle, Sokolov was on Malaya Zemlya. Before his eyes, events took place that are not forgotten; before his eyes, paratroopers performed feats that were included in the chronicles of the Patriotic War.
After the liberation of Novorossiysk, the airborne units, hardened on Malaya Zemlya, had to create bridgeheads in the Crimea, fight for Sevastopol and in the Carpathians, on the Vistula, Oder and Spree, storm Berlin, and liberate Prague. And Sokolov took part in these battles.
During the war years, Sokolov did not dream of writing. He did, however, keep some notes. But during the September assault on the Novorossiysk port, the boat he was on was hit and sank. Sokolov swam out, and his duffel bag with notebooks sank to the bottom. However, after the war, he wanted to talk about his experience, and he took up the pen. My memory has preserved much, the sorrows and joys of life at the front. In 1949, the first edition of his book “Small Land” was published. Written in the fresh wake of events, it captivated with its truthfulness and love for friends and comrades. The author was accepted into the Writers' Union.
Throughout his creative life, while working on “Malaya Zemlya,” Georgy Sokolov was simultaneously creating his main book, the novel “Sevastopol is Waiting for Us.” The novel truthfully and impressively describes the last days of the defense of Sevastopol, the tragedy of those who remained in the trenches and on the shores of Chersonesos after the fleet finally left its base. It seems all is lost. However, this is not true. The epilogue of the Sevastopol tragedy became the prologue to the battles in the Novorossiysk region in 1942-1943, to the battles on Malaya Zemlya, on Taman, to the expulsion of the Nazis from the Kuban, from the entire North Caucasus. Participating in these battles, the heroes of the novel understand that there is no other way, that they need to go through this entire painful path with inevitable losses and losses in order to return to Sevastopol.
Georgy Sokolov himself walked this route, first from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk, then from Novorossiysk to Sevastopol and further to the Carpathians, through the Vistula and Oder to the Spree and Vltava.
The native land and people do not forget their sons and daughters who died for the Fatherland. Reading and re-reading the novel “Sevastopol Awaits Us,” we, first of all, note that it captures the historical feat of the people, the glory of which will not fade for centuries.
Sevastopol is waiting for Sokolov: Roman. – M.: Sov. writer, 1981.-656 p.
Sokolov land.- M.: Sov. Russia, 1971, -384 p.