Potanin, Victor Fedorovich

Victor Fedorovich Potanin was born on August 14, 1937 in the village of Utyatskoye, Utyatsky village council of the Glyadyansky district of the Chelyabinsk region (now a village in the Nagorsky village council of the Tobolny district of the Kurgan region ).

In 1958 he graduated from the historical and philological faculty of the Kurgan Pedagogical Institute . From 1958 to 1967 he worked as a literary officer, executive secretary in the regional newspaper Young Leninist. Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR . He was not a member of the CPSU .

In 1959 he participated in the All-Union Conference of Young Prose Writers in Moscow ( Maleevka House of Creativity ). On the recommendation of this meeting in 1961 he entered the Gorky Literary Institute under the Union of Writers of the USSR, graduated from the correspondence department of prose in 1967 .

In 1963, his first storybook, Cranes Arrived, was released. In 1966 he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR . He participated in the zonal essay workshop in Chelyabinsk and in the Kemerovo seminar for young writers of the Urals and Western Siberia (1966). From January 1970 to 1998, he was a literary consultant to the Kurgan Writing Organization .

In 1976 he was elected a delegate to the VI Congress of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Then he was elected a delegate to the VII and VIII congresses of writers of the USSR. At the X Congress of the Union of Writers of Russia, he was elected a member of the board of the Union of Writers of Russia and a member of the highest creative council.

He was elected as a deputy of the Kurgan Regional Council of People's Deputies (chairman of the commission on culture), a member of the Presidium of the regional branch of the Mongol-Soviet friendship, a member of the Presidium of the Kurgan regional society of book lovers, a member of the editorial board of the journal "Ural", a member of the Admissions Committee of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR, a member of the editorial and publishing board magazine "Contemporary".

V.F. Potanin - member of the Board of the Union of Writers of Russia, secretary of the Union of Writers of Russia, member of the Admission Board of the Union of Writers of Russia, member of the Higher Creative and Coordinating Councils of the Union of Writers of Russia.

V.F. Potanin is a member of the board of trustees, professor and head of the literary studio of Kurgan State University .

• Order of Friendship , 2009 ^[1]
• Order of Honor , 1997
• Order of the Badge of Honor , 1987
• Anniversary medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin " , 1970
• Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR , 1978
• Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation, 2016 ^[2]
• Honorary Citizen of the Kurgan Region , 2003
• Honorary Citizen of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in the city of Kurgan , 1997
• Medal "The best people of Russia", 2000
• Medal “On the 100th anniversary of the birth of M. Sholokhov. For Humanism and the Ministry of Russia, 2004
• Medal of M. Yu. Lermontov
• Medal of the Monk Dalmat of Iset, 1st Degree, Russian Orthodox Church (certificate No. 1, August 14, 2012) ^{[3] [4]}
• Medal "60 years of the Mongolian People's Revolution" , 1982
• Commemorative medal "100 years of the Great October Socialist Revolution" ( Communist Party , January 24, 2018 ^[5] )
• Letter of thanks "For active participation in the election campaign for the election of the President of the Russian Federation", 2012
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1978) - for the books “Silent Water”, “Memory Will Tell”, “Last Horses”
• 1st degree diploma from the newspaper "Rural Life" (Moscow), for the best story, 1982
• Prize of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR, 1988
• Laureate of the literary prize I. A. Bunin "For the best story", 1994
• Laureate of the magazine " Soviet Woman ", Moscow, 1992
• Laureate of the 2nd prize of the All-Russian Literary Competition named after V. M. Shukshina, for the best short story, 1999
• Laureate of the All-Russian Literary Prize. D. N. Mamina-Sibiryaka - “For the creative contribution to contemporary Russian prose and following the best traditions of modern realistic literature”, 2002
• Laureate of the Imperial Culture. Eduard Volodin "," For the high service to literature ", 2004
• Winner of the Shukshin Prize, for the complete works, 2007
• Alexander Green Prize , 2012
• The Great Literary Prize of Russia , 2016
• Patriarchal Literary Prize , May 24, 2018 ^[6]
• Assignment to the Kurgan Regional Children's Library named after Victor Fedorovich Potanin, August 8, 2017 ^[7] )

• “Cranes Have Arrived” Kurgan, ed. "Soviet Trans-Urals", 1963 - 74 p.
• “Give me a sisar” Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1966 - 82 p.
• “We are Young” Moscow, ed. "Soviet literature", 1966
• “Heir to the Soldier” Moscow, ed. "Soviet Russia", 1967 - 48 p.
• “On the Other Side” Moscow, ed. “Children's Literature,” 1988–336 p.
• “Fog in the Snow” Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1968
• "Crazy Spring" Moscow, ed. “Soviet Russia”, 1969—192 p.
• "Marina". Chelyabinsk, YuUKI, 1970
• “For the sake of this minute” Novosibirsk, West Siberian Book Publishing House, 1971
• “Hears the Earth” Moscow, ed. "Soviet Russia", 1971
• “Over the Challenge” Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1972
• “Waiting for the Sea” Moscow, ed. "Contemporary", 1973-224 p.
• "Until next fall" Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1974
• “Memory Will Tell” Moscow, ed. "Soviet Russia", 1975 - 94 p.
• Silent Water Moscow, ed. Sovremennik, 1976–384 p.
• The Last Horses Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1977-182
• “When the Rains Passed” Moscow, ed. "Soviet Russia", 1978—252 p.
• "Rural Monologues" Moscow, ed. The Young Guard, 1979
• “Late guest” Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1980–240 p.
• “Dock” Sverdlovsk, Middle Ural Book Publishing House, 1980-416.
• Four Tales Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1981
• "Favorites" Moscow, ed. The Young Guard, 1982-512 p.
• "Ivan Ivanovich" Moscow, ed. “Baby” , 1983 - 38 p.
• “At Dawn” Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1984–284 p.
• “Trains Do Not Return” Moscow. Ed. "Soviet Russia", 1985
• “Marina”, M., Fiction, 1986 (novel-newspaper).
• "White horses" Moscow, ed. "Children's literature", 1986-112 p.
• “On a cliff” Moscow, ed. Sovremennik, 1986–352 p.
• “October in My Fate” Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1987–288 p.
• “Provincial Man” Chelyabinsk, South Ural Book Publishing House, 1987–384 p.
• "Where the sun sleeps" Moscow, ed. “Baby”, 1987 - 16 p.
• “On the Other Side” Moscow, ed. “Children's Literature,” 1988–336 p.
• “Letters to the Son” M., Young Guard, 1989
• The Blue Pearl Moscow, ed. "Contemporary", 1989-480 p.
• “On the Other Side” Moscow, ed. "Children's Literature", 1991-144 p.
• “The Cuckoo Cried” Moscow, ed. "Soviet writer", 1992-448.
• “We dance without a break” Kurgan, ed. Trans-Urals, 1995-540 s.
• "Stolen Life" Kurgan, ed. Zauralie, 2000
• "My husband was a test pilot" Moscow, series "Roman Newspaper", No. 24, 2000
• The Golden Ark Moscow, Roman-Gazeta series No. 8, 2007
• Collected works in five volumes. Kurgan, ed. Zauralye, 2007

Many stories are translated into all major European languages. The total circulation is about 7 million copies.

• Father - Fedor Stepanovich Potanin, a teacher (1910-1941), died during the Great Patriotic War ^[8] .
• Mother - Anna Timofeevna Potanina, Honored Teacher of the RSFSR School.
  • Grandfather - Timofey Ivanovich Selivanov, an Old Believer, lived in the village of Kargapolye, shot by a punitive detachment of the Cheka in 1921.
  • Grandmother - Ekaterina Egorovna.
• Wife - Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Potanina, teacher of the Kurgan School of Culture.
• Daughter - Ekaterina Viktorovna.
• Son - Fedor Viktorovich Potanin.

• Potanin Victor Fedorovich on the website "cbs-kurgan.com".
• Potanin Victor Fedorovich on the site "Biography.ru".
• Vladimir Oleinik The battlefield is the soul! (introductory remarks to the collected works of Victor Potanin) on the site "Radiokurgan".
• Russian literature of the XX century. Prose writers, poets, playwrights. Bibliographic dictionary. Volume 3. P - I. p. 109-111