Ketlinskaya, Vera Kazimirovna

V.K. Ketlinskaya was born on April 28 ( May 11 ), 1906 in Sevastopol, in the family of a naval artillery officer, Pole Kazimir Filippovich Ketlinsky , from 1917 rear admiral and chief commander of the Murmansk fortified area and the Murmansk detachment of ships (Glavnamur), actually the commandant of Murmansk . In 1918, he was killed by unknowns.

She began her career at 13 at the factory, and since 1920 at the Komsomol and party work. Since 1923 she lived in Leningrad . She worked at the State Publishing House . Member of the Communist Party since 1927.

The first literary work - the story "Natka Michurina" (1929) - is dedicated to working youth. It was also published under the pseudonym Petrov V. (Thirteen October. - M., 1930; History of a camp. - M .; L., 1931) ^[3] .

In 1936, expelled from the Union of Writers of the USSR, in 1939 restored.

Ideologically sustained works about the builders of the new communist society were recognized by the party leadership. In the besieged Leningrad she was in leading positions on the ideological front (from June 1941 to July 1942 - executive secretary of the Leningrad branch of the USSR SP). The most famous works: “ Courage ” - about the builders of Komsomolsk-on-Amur , “Under Siege” (1947) - about the besieged Leningrad. In the pre-television period, her works formed the basis of radio performances, the regular broadcast of which was carried out throughout the country and had an ideological impact on the country's population.

She lived in a summer house in Komarovo and in house number 9 on the embankment of the Griboedov Canal , where many famous Soviet writers and poets lived ( O. D. Forsh , V. A. Kaverin , V. Ya. Shishkov , I. S. Sokolov-Mikitov , M. M. Zoshchenko , P. N. Luknitsky , G. D. Venus , E. L. Schwartz , S. A. Semenov , M. E. Kozakov , L. I. Borisov , L. I. Rakovsky , Yu P. German , B. M. Likharev , I. K. Avramenko , N. L. Brown , M. I. Komissarova , V. M. Sayanov , V. A. Rozhdestvensky and others). She exchanged her apartment of a smaller area for a larger one with M. M. Zoshchenko ^[5] .

V.K. Ketlinskaya died on April 23, 1976 . She was buried at Komarovsky cemetery in the suburbs of St. Petersburg .

Awards and Prizes

• Stalin Prize of the Third Degree (1948) - for the novel "Under Siege" (1947)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (05/19/1956)
• medals

Family

• First husband - Pavel Sokolov (died in the Great Patriotic War)
• Second husband - artist Evgeny Adolfovich Kibrik
• The third husband (1942-1949) - writer Alexander Ilyich Zonin
  • son - Sergey Alexandrovich Ketlinsky (1940–2019), doctor of medical sciences, professor, corresponding member of RAMS (adopted by A. I. Zonin)
  • son - Vladimir Alexandrovich Ketlinsky (Zonin; born 1944), teacher, candidate of chemical sciences.

• Girl and Komsomol. L., Surf, 1927
• Natka Michurina. 1929
• Life without control. Sexual life and family of working youth. M.-L., Young Guard, 1929. Co-author V. Slepkov
• The story of one camp. 1931
• Height. L., GIHL, 1934
• Courage. M., Goslitizdat, 1938 (about 20 lifetime editions)
• On one of the roofs. 1942
• Stories about Leningraders. L., Lenizdat, 1944
• Under siege. 1947
• The days of our lives. 1952
• China today and tomorrow: Essays. L., Soviet writer, 1958
• Otherwise, you should not live. 1960 (attempt to openly write about the Stalinist arbitrariness of 1937)
• A day lived twice. L., Soviet writer, 1964
• Evening, windows, people. Story. M., Young Guard, 1974
• Hello, youth! 1975

• Rapoport E. Vera Ketlinskaya. - L., 1958;
• Kozlov I. How to live, what to be // Literary newspaper, 1965, June 26;
• Russian Soviet prose writers. Bibliographic index. T. 2. - L., 1964.
• Kondratovich A. Plant and people, "New World", 1952, No. 12;
• Paperny Z. Difficult happiness, “Lit. newspaper ", 1953, Jan 6;
• Dombrowski R. Roman about our contemporaries, “The Banner”, 1953, No. 2;
• Dombrowski R. Mastery is psychological. analysis, "Uch. app. Ulyanovsk ped. in-that ”, 1953, c. 5;
• Fadeev A. About the novel “Days of our life” (Letter by V. K. Ketlinskaya), in his book: For thirty years, M., 1957;
• Chernushchenko M.I. Early production. V. Ketlinsky, “Uch. app. Chernivtsi. University ", 1958, c. 3;
• Chernushchenko M. I. About the artist. features of the novel "Under Siege" by V. Ketlinskaya, ibid., 1960, v. 39;
• Sokolov V. How to live, “Lit. newspaper ", 1960, Dec 17;
• Rurikov B. Life, work, struggle, Izvestia, 1961, April 28 .;

• 1980 - Courage (in 7 episodes), film director Dovzhenko

• Cossack V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIC "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 .

• Ketlinskaya in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
• Detailed biography on the site-necropolis
• Fedorov P.V. Case of Admiral K.F. Ketlinsky // Science and Education. 2007. No. 8. P.97-102.