Dubrovin, Evgeny Panteleevich

Evgeny Panteleevich Dubrovin was born in the working village of Verkhneozyorsk Agricultural College of the Talovsky District of the Voronezh Region. Eight classes he graduated in Nizhny Kamenka, grades 9-10 - in Talovskaya railway school number 39. After graduating from the Voronezh Agricultural Institute, he worked as a mechanic at a car repair plant in Ostrogozhsk . The first test of the pen of the future writer took place at the Agricultural Institute, where students published the newspaper "Crocodile on a tractor." The editor-in-chief of the newspaper was Evgeny Dubrovin. Here his first stories “Smoke over the Kitchen” and “Hedgehog” came out. Then he became the executive secretary of the large-circulation newspaper of the Teacher’s Pedagogical Institute. In 1965 he became deputy editor of the newspaper Young Communard, where he edited the humorous page Black Cat. In 1963-1966 he studied in absentia at the Literary Institute . Gorky at the seminar of one of the oldest writers Gorbunov Kuzma Yakovlevich. The first story of the writer - “Mushrooms on the pavement” - was published in 1966 , after which Dubrovin’s stories were published in the journal “Ascent” and then were published in the collective collection of young Voronezh prose writers “Birthday”. From 1967 to 1971, Yevgeny Dubrovin was the editor of the regional youth newspaper “Young Communard”, after which he left for Moscow, where he began working in the editorial office of the Crocodile magazine in the department of economic life; in 1975, he headed the magazine.

Died of a heart attack . He was buried at Kuntsevsky cemetery ^[1] .

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of Honor
• Laureate of the Aleko International Competition for Comedy Stories ( NRB ) in 1975

• Feature film "Abduction", USSR, Mosfilm, 1984, based on the story "Silly Fairy Tale" ^[2]
• Feature film " Frenchman ", USSR, Film Studio for Children and Youth Films Gorky, 1988, based on the novel "Waiting for a Goat." ^[3]