Seledtsov, Oleg Valerievich

• In 1984 he graduated from high school number 2 of the city of Bodaibo.
• From 1984 to 1985 he worked as a milling machine at the Tokradiomash plant in Maikop.
• From 1985 to 1988 he served on the warship of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet .
• In 1991 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philology of the Adyghe State Pedagogical Institute.
• He worked as a literature teacher, social teacher, deputy director for educational work.
• He graduated from the graduate school at the Adyghe State University. Since 1995 he has been working at the republican radio of the Adygea television and radio company.

Reprinted since 1986. Poems, novels and short stories by O. Seledtsova were published in the journals: “Moscow” , “Friendship of Peoples” , “Youth” , “ Literary Studies ”, “Young Guard” , “Holy Fire”, “Litros”, “Native Ladoga”, “ Nevsky Almanac " , " North " ( Petrozavodsk )," Vertical "(Nizhny Novgorod)," Luch "(Izhevsk)," The Wanderer "(Saransk)," Don "," The Ark "(Rostov-on-Don)," Edge of Cities ”(Ryazan),“ Nana ”(Grozny),“ Star of the Black Sea Region ”(Tuapse),“ Literary Adygea ”(Maikop),“ Verb of the Caucasus ”(Maikop),“ Bodaibinskaya Panorama ”(Irkutsk); collections "Prologue" (Moscow, Vagrius), "New Writers" (Moscow, Book Garden), "Life-long War" (Moscow, AST), "Love Enchanting Sounds" (S-Pb., Century of Art); newspapers: "Russian Writer", "Day of Literature" and others, a regular contributor to the weekly "Literary Russia". Member of the forums of young writers of Russia in Moscow (2001 and 2004 gg.).

Poetic collections

• “Give me love” (1997)
• Rock and Roll Dreams (2000)
• “My share is Russian” (2001)
• "The White-fowl" (2001)
• "Unicorn and white fish" (2002)
• “From youth with love” (2003)
• "The source of living water" (2003)
• “I Am a Wanderer on the Earth” (2005)

Prose

• “Empty efforts” (2006)
• "She, come" (2010)
• "Difficult stories" (2011)
• “At noon and at midnight” (2012)
• “Passion for Sergius” (2013)
• “Hugging the sky” (2013)
• "My Dostoevsky" (2014)
• “Do not cry for Me, Mati” (2016)
• "Liturgy of the faithful" (2016)
• "Come from childhood" (2017)

• Winner of the international literary contest named after V. Kaverin.
• Winner of the All-Russian literary competition named after I. Shmelyov ^[1] and the All-Russian literary competition named after V. Shukshin "Bright Souls" ^[2] . Winner of several regional festivals of art song and poetry.
• Awarded the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh 3 degrees
• Medal of Sergius of Radonezh 1 degree
• Diploma of the Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy 2.
• In 2005, the weekly "Literary Russia" was included in the number of 50 leading writers of southern Russia ^[3] .
• Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Adygea (2016). ^[four]

Published works of O.V. Seledtsova found a positive response from leading critics of Russia.

For example, Kapitolina Kokshenyova, head. The Department of Critics of the magazine “Moscow” wrote: “We present the stories of Oleg Seledtsov’s“ Brother ”in our magazine ... Seledtsov focuses on the inner life of a person who often lives not in harmony with the world, but is still looking for an excuse for him, is looking for his right place in it . And he finds him in the Church. ”(K. Kokshenyova. New Writers. Moscow. - 2005. - No. 2).

The critic Vasilina Orlova in the pages of the most authoritative “thick” literary magazine “New World” notes: “Oleg Seledtsov ... keenly and clearly feels his connection with the earth. In the works ... the main actor is our contemporary, “an ordinary person,” one might say, a philistine. But without the slightest accusatory notes talking about him. And he is caught, this hero in the "natural habitat" - where he was met. That is why it blows with purity of intentions from the poems and stories of Oleg Seledtsov. ”(V. Orlova. As an Iceberg in the Ocean. New World. - 2005. - № 4) ^[5] .

The same V. Orlova in the weekly “Literary Russia” writes about the stories of the applicant on the pages of the almanac “Litros”: “The story-teller club opens Oleg Seledtsov with a selection“ And we will burn in hell ”(well, young writers like hell, paradise, demons and angels ). The stories are nevertheless warm to the touch, bright to the eye. "(V. Orlova. Was Defense Held? Literary Russia. - 2004. - No. 28).

Jan Shankman in NG-exlibris (January 27, 2005) writes about the story “Brother” by O. Seledtsov: “Although it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the holy fool from a very kind person or person who does not play by the rules. Seledtsov writes about Alyosha Karamazov of our time. Tells a fairy tale rather than true. But in any case, such a brother is better than the hero of Sergey Bodrov. ”

The same story is highlighted by Yevgeny Yermolin, a leading Russian critic, in the magazine Continent (No. 124, 2005) ^[6] : “The prose writer Oleg Seledtsov created a touching story. The ideal boy, then the young man feels sorry for everyone, helps everyone, gives up the latter, is distinguished by sheer chastity. This is one road - to the monastery. Closer to God.

In addition, the works of O. Seledtsova wrote:

Alexey Shorokhov (see A. Shorokhov. About some tendencies in the "young poetry". Russian writer. - 2003. - № 3;

A. Shorokhov. The generation of "thirty". Literary Russia. - 2001. - № 46;

A. Shorokhov. Papua - New Russia or once again about the national pride of the Great Russians. Literature Day. - 2002. - № 6),

Sergey Filatov - President of the Foundation for Socio-Economic and Intellectual Programs and Tatyana Kuzovleva - Secretary of the Moscow Writers' Union (see S. Filatov, T. Kuzovleva. To the readers. Prologue, Moscow: Vagrius, 2002)

Evgenia Shcheglova (Continent. - 2005. - № 124),

Andrey Isaev, Dmitry Yermakov, Andrey Rudalev and others.