Svoysky, Boris Iosifovich

Born in the family of an accountant. He grew up on Alexei Tolstoy Street, which is one of the central ones in Samara. He graduated from the sixth school on the street of Samara. For many years he was brought up by his grandparents. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at the Kuibyshev Pedagogical Institute (now the Volga State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities ). He worked as a school teacher in the years 1961-1962, then as an editor in the children's edition of local television. After graduating from the Higher Scenario Courses at the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR in 1969, he moved to the city ​​newsreel studio and worked there for thirty years. Filmed documentaries about Samara. In 1999, he began to conduct his five-minute radio program “Unexpected Turn”, which was interrupted by a stroke in March 2001. He was married, lived with his daughter and granddaughter.

He died in his house, where he lived the last years of his life.

While studying at school, he studied in the literary circle of the Kuibyshev Palace of Pioneers. Working in the children's editorial office of Kuibyshev television, he wrote three plays for children set by the regional television studio Comrade. Then came the stories and stories for children. He released several collections of poems. He wrote the lyrics, which became famous for the music of the Samara composer Mark Levyant. The fame of Boris Svoymsky brought a series of documentaries about Samara and work on newsreels at a newsreel studio, where he acted as a screenwriter , speaker , and later as a director . On the Samara period of life of Maxim Gorky wrote a play , staged in a local theater .

He tried to work on television, and during the year he led a talk show on the SC-T channel. The last two years of his life he conducted his own five-minute “Unexpected Turn” on the Samara radio. In five minutes, Boris Iosifovich managed to make that “turn” in reasoning on a certain topic, starting from a popular statement. Each issue ended with a small poem as an epilogue. The show went out in the daytime every Sunday, regular listeners were already expecting Boris Svoysky’s catchphrase in advance, “But we will make ... an unexpected turn.” In 2001, the five-minute starts to go out less and less. The funeral of the screenwriter, playwright and writer, popular in Samara, was held in the center of the city. Whoever recognized his whole conscious life as a lover of his little Motherland - Samara - and reluctantly leaving her, Boris Svoysky with his work remained virtually unknown outside its borders. However, for his native city he was and remains a landmark cultural figure. At present, it has been decided to install the Border of God Svoysky monument in the Strukovsky Garden of Samara.

• In Samara, a monument to Boris Svoysky .