Voloshin, Alexander Nikitich

Alexander Voloshin was born on August 18 ( August 31 ), 1912 in the city of St. Petersburg . His father Nikita Lukich worked as a potter at the Putilov factory (he was repressed and executed in 1937, rehabilitated posthumously). With the outbreak of World War I , the Voloshins family moved to their relatives in Siberia . Alexander Voloshin spent all his childhood in the Novosibirsk region , where he entered the Komsomol and where he graduated from high school in 1929. ^[1] During the years of the first five-year plan, Voloshin entered the construction of the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant , where he worked as a concrete worker and was active in social activities. Then Voloshin was sent by the Komsomol of the mine to the Osinnikovsky mine, where he worked as a miner and a fuser.

In 1934, Voloshin was called up for active military service in the ranks of the Red Army , where Voloshin graduated from the correspondence department of the Leningrad Communist Institute of Journalism. Having been demobilized from the army in 1936, A. N. Voloshin returned to the Osinnikovsky mine and settled in the local newspaper “For Coal”. Two years later, Alexander moved to Cheremkhovo and began to work with the newspaper Cheremkhovsky Worker. During the Great Patriotic War Voloshin participated in many battles as an ordinary sapper , and was wounded. In 1945, during the fighting on the Oder , he joined the CPSU (b) .

After the war ended, Alexander returned to Siberia , where he continued the work of a journalist, working with the Kuzbass newspaper in Kemerovo . Member of the joint venture of the USSR since 1950. From 1959 to 1961 he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine “ Lights of Kuzbass ”. In 1962, he joined the branch of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR in the city of Kemerovo, newly created by the board of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR.

He died on May 28 ^[2] 1978 in the city of Kemerovo . He was buried in the cemetery "Central-1".

Literary activity

The first literary work of Alexander Voloshin appeared in 1931, when he wrote the story about the life of miners, “The First Change”. Later in some Siberian newspapers appear his other stories, as well as essays and articles. In 1939, the story “Two Comrades” appeared in the Siberian Lights magazine, telling about the rebellion of the Kolchug miners against Kolchak. By 1949, he completed his first novel, Kuznetsk Land. The novel narrated about the difficulties of the Kuzbass miners during the implementation of the plans of the first five-year plan. In 1951, in the Siberian Lights magazine, he published a continuation of Kuznetskaya Zemlya, the novel Far Mountains. In 1955, the play “Blossom Bird Cherry” (another name - “Test”) was published.

• 1931 - “The First Change” (short story)
• 1939 - “Two Comrades” (short story)
• 1949 - “Kuznetsk Land” (novel)
• 1951 - “Distant Mountains” (novel)
• 1951 - The Test (play)
• 1957 - “How did life begin” (storybook)
• 1962 - “The Roads Call” (storybook)
• 1967 - “Everything About Natasha” (novel)
• 1976 - “Time to Be” (storybook)

• Order of the Patriotic War II degree (08/20/1944)
• Medal "For Courage" (02.2.1945; was presented to the Order of the Red Star)
• medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
• medal "For the capture of Berlin"
• medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Stalin Prize of the second degree for the novel "Kuznetsk Land" (1949)

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