Lipatov, Vil Vladimirovich

V. Lipatov was born on April 10, 1927 in a family of intellectuals. Father is a journalist, mother is a teacher. In 1929, the parents separated, and the mother and son left for the Far East.

In 1939, Wil and his mother moved to the village of Novokotkino, Chazhemtovsky, a rural settlement of the Kolpashevsky District of the Novosibirsk (now Tomsk ) Region, and in 1941 - to the village of Togur .

In 1952 he graduated from the history department of the Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute and from 1951 to 1956 he worked as a journalist and head of the industrial department of the Tomsk regional newspaper " Red Flag ". He lived in Pionersky Lane ^[3] (the house, located between q.4 and 8a, burned down in the 2000s). In the novel “Igor Savvovich” he described the old streets of Tomsk with journalistic accuracy.

In 1957 he moved to the city of Asino , worked as the head of the department of letters and culture in the regional newspaper "Prichulymskaya Pravda".

Then he worked in Chita , Bryansk as a special correspondent for the newspaper Sovetskaya Russia (1964–1966), and from 1967 in Moscow, as a special correspondent for the newspapers Izvestia , Pravda , and Literary Gazette .

In the last years of his life, Wil Lipatov served as Secretary of the Board of the USSR Writers' Union .

He died on May 1, 1979 in Moscow . He was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery .

Personal life

• First wife: Alexandra Vladimirovna Lipatova. On July 25, 1952, a daughter, Tatiana Vilievna Lipatova (graphic artist, creator of dolls) was born
• Second wife: Irina Ilyinichna Mazuruk (1936–1985), daughter of aviation general Ilya Mazuruk , adoptive daughter of the editor-in-chief of Znamya magazine, writer Vadim Kozhevnikov .

The first stories of “Aircraft fireman” and “Two in a vest” were published in the journal “Youth” in 1956, and in 1958 published the first book. Lipatov's story “The Legend of Director Pronechatov”, the novel “It's All About Him” (and the script of the same TV movie ), and the story “Village Detective” and the screenplay of the village district policeman Aniskine - “Village Detective " (1968), " Aniskin and Fantômas " (1974), " And again Aniskin " (1978).

Lipatov's prose, as a rule, is close to the genre of the production novel, but in the context of Soviet production prose his writings looked quite problematic and psychologically reliable. One of the best examples of village prose, free from ideological pressure, is the story “Even before the war” (1971), in which the life and customs of the Siberian village were recreated with extraordinary certainty in the years before the Great Patriotic War.

Lipatov sees the main danger of his time in the emergence of a type of spiritless "consumer" whose life is dedicated only to the achievement of material benefits ^[4] .

The real state of affairs in the country is sharply and tragically illustrated by the work of the writer Lipatov “And it's All About Him” (1974), where the actual death of the disinterested and ideological Komsomol movement in the USSR, strangled by businessmen of the “shadow economy” and bureaucrats, is shown in the allegorical form. In the works of the “Moscow” period, Lipatov, in the words of Tomsk journalist and writer Viktor Loysha, “casually revenged everyone who once had somehow offended him” ^[3] . Loysha noted that Lipatov not only made the negative characters recognizable, but also called them real names ^[3] .

• Six : Tale. - M., 1958.
• Captain of the Bold : A Tale. - M., 1959 (New World, 1959, № 10).
• Its burden does not pull: a chronicle. - Chita, 1959.
• Deaf Mint: Tale. - Chita, 1960. (New World, 1960, № 5, 6)
• Rod : Tale. - Chita, 1961 (New World, 1961, No. 4, 5).
• Wisdom Tooth: A Tale. - Chita, 1961.
• The boy and the car: Tale. - Chita, 1962.
• Death of Yegor Suzun : A Tale. - Chita, 1963.
• Alien: Tale. - Chita, 1964 (New World, 1964, № 3).
• Operation "X two zeros". - Irkutsk, East Siberian Book Publishing, 1965.
• Country Detective . - M., 1968 (Banner, 1967, No. 10).
• Lida Varaksina . // "Banner", 1968, № 12.
• The Legend of the Director Pronchatov . - M., 1969 (Banner, 1969, № 1, 2).
• Gray mouse. - M., 1970. (on the problem of alcoholism in the USSR) (Banner, 1970, No. 12).
• Even before the war . - M., 1971 (Banner, 1971, No. 9, 10).
• And it's all about him : a novel. - M., 1974 (Banner, 1974, No. 9, 10, 11).
• Aircraft fireman. 1975.
• Igor Savvovich: Roman. - M., 1977. (Banner, 1977, No. 7, 8, 9).
• Life of Vanyushka Murzin, or Love in Staro-Korotkin (1977) - M., 1989 (Banner, 1978, № 8, 9).
• A tale without a title, plot and end ... // New World, 1978, No. 4-6.
• Lion on the lawn. (1978) - M., 1988.
• House on the beach. - M., 1983.

1. 1968 - Country Detective
2. 1969 - Mr Twister
3. 1972 - Engineer Pronchatov
4. 1972 - Narym Divorce
5. 1974 - Aniskin and Fantomas
6. 1975 - Ivan and Columbine
7. 1976 - Three suns
8. 1978 - And it's all about him.
9. 1978 - And again Aniskin
10. 1982 - Even before the war
11. 1987 - Igor Savvovich
12. 1988 - Gray Mouse

• 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor ( ??? ; 1977)
• medal
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1978) - for the screenplay of the film “And It's All About It” (1977)
• The first prize at the All-Union Literary Competition named after Nikolai Ostrovsky for 1973-1974. - for the novel "And it's all about him"

• Prize named after V. Lipatov of the Tomsk regional organization of the Union of Journalists of the USSR (1982-1991).
• In Asino , a memorial plaque was installed on the building of the city library and newspaper in 1990
• Lipatov streets in Asino , Togur and Chita .

• Lipatov, Wil Vladimirovich // Tomsk from A to Z: A brief encyclopedia of the city. / Ed. Dr. East. Sciences N. M. Dmitrienko . - 1st ed. - Tomsk: Publishing house NTL, 2004. - p. 190-191. - 440 s. - 3 000 copies - ISBN 5-89503-211-7 .
• Kozlov I. T. Lipatov pleases, Lipatov grieves // Questions of literature . - 1969. - № 10.

• Brief chronicle of life and work
• Vil Lipatov - a site about the writer
• Lipatov, Wil Vladimirovich // Short Literary Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A. A. Surkov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1962-1978.