Aronov, Alexander Yakovlevich

In 1956 he graduated from the Moscow City Pedagogical Institute. V.P. Potemkin , and then the graduate school of the Institute of Art Education at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR . His first post was called the “spare teacher of the Moscow region” ^[1] . He worked as a teacher of literature in rural schools of the Shakhovsky District and in Moscow School No. 635, and was engaged in mathematical linguistics at the CEMI of the USSR Academy of Sciences . From 1966 until the last days he was a columnist for the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets , led a permanent column and was published in various sections of the newspaper ^[2] , some of which, for example, Telenedelya, Talk, Poets' Tournament, invented ^{[ 3]} .

Also, his poems were published in a number of journals, for example, Ogonyok (No. 32, 1988) and Znamya (No. 3, 1997) ^[4] .

He is best known for his poems “Stop, Look Back” (the name became a common phrase, reused as, for example, headlines for newspaper and magazine articles) and “If you don’t have an aunt” (set to music by Michael Tariverdiev and became popular as the song in the movie Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! ”). Also known was the poem “Ghetto. 1943 "(" When the ghetto was burning "), dedicated to the complex relationship between the Russian, Polish and Jewish peoples during and after World War II . Viktor Berkovsky wrote the music for these verses, creating the song “Warsaw Ghetto. 1943 " ^[5] .

During the life of the poet, three collections of his poems were published: “The Island of Security” (1987), “Texts” (1989), “First Life” (1989). In 2014, Alexander Minkin and Tatyana Sukhanova (Aronova), with the assistance of the editorial office of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets , published the most complete collection of the poet - “Favorites” with a circulation of 1.000 copies.

In 2002, he was posthumously awarded the Golden Feather of Russia , the prize of the Union of Journalists of Russia “Professionalism. Honour. Dignity ” ^{[6] [7]} .

Family

• Wife - Tatiana Aronova-Sukhanova.
  • Adopted son - actor Maxim Sukhanov .

• The beginning of the poem “Stop, look back ...” M. Gorbachev announced the sign of “new thinking” on which Perestroika was based ^[8] .
• Lev Novozhenov recalls that “ Yura (Vlodov) was a friend of Sasha Aronov. He was the friend, not the friend, because it was impossible to be friends with Aronov, as well as with Vlodov. In general, is it possible to be friends with poets — the question is, are they always on their own and somewhere there? ” ^[9] .
• Journalist Alexander Minkin in the article "The Three Prophets" ^[10] put Aronov's poem "The Prophet" on a par with the works of the same name by Pushkin and Lermontov . According to him, “Aronov in his“ Prophet ”said more about us than Pushkin and Lermontov in their own. Although they are great, but he is nobody ” ^[11] .
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko believed that "Alexander Aronov is one of the resurrectors of thinking songs that help others think" ^[8] .
• Yuri Shchekochikhin , Oleg Khlebnikov , Evgeny Bunimovich considered Alexander Aronov to be their teacher ^[12] .

• Alexander Aronov Islet of safety. - M .: Soviet writer, 1987. - 128 p.
• Alexander Aronov Texts. / Preface S. Chuprinin . - M .: Book Chamber, 1989. - 176 p.
• Alexander Aronov First Life: Poems. - M .: Pravda, 1989. - 32 p. (B-ka "Spark" number 46).
• Alexander Aronov Tunnel: Poems, essays, excerpts from articles. - M .: "Voice-Press", 2003. - 336 p.
• Alexander Aronov Favorites. / Preface by Alexander Minkin . - M .: Publishing House "Moskovsky Komsomolets", 2014. - 448 p. Circulation 1000 copies. ISBN 978-5-9900974-2-1 .
• Alexander Aronov Plain text (favorite lyrics). - M .: Setizdat, 2014. - 480 p. ^[13] .

A. Ya. Aronov died on October 19, 2001. He was buried on October 22 ^[3] in Moscow at the cemetery of ZAO Gorbrus (station No. 19), located opposite the Mitinsky cemetery ^[14] .

• Vadim Perelmuter. Notes without comment // Arion (poetry journal), No. 4, 2002.
• Andrey Yakhontov “Shoot Me twice” (About Sasha Aronov) // “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, No. 25647 dated May 21, 2011.
• Andrey Chernov The torn tuxedo of the poet Aronov // Nestorian Site / Nestoriana, 10/13/2014.
• Alexander Aronov on the site "Unofficial Poetry"