Dodolev, Yuri Alekseevich

Yuri Alekseevich Dodolev was born on July 17, 1926 in Moscow . Before the war, he worked as an apprentice planer at GPZ-2 .

Member of the Great Patriotic War (since November 1943 ). He went to the front as a volunteer, enlisted as a Red Army soldier of the 25th reserve special purpose radio regiment. Since June 1944 - an ordinary shock battalion on the Karelian front . He was seriously injured in the battle when crossing Svir . After the cure, he was an ordinary brigade of the 8th airborne division of the 3rd Ukrainian front , and participated in the Balaton operation . Then the private 975th Infantry Regiment of the 270th Demidov Red Banner Division, a participant in the Baltic operation , blocking the Germans in the Courland Cauldron . ^[1] Disabled World War 1 degree ^[2] .

He graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (1952). He made his debut in print in 1967 .

He worked as the correspondent of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in Donbass ^[3] and Karaganda ^[4] . While working in a newspaper in the late sixties, he “published his first story”, which was immediately noticed by critics ^[5] .

Ruslan Kireev mentioned his friend and colleague as "a person of extremely informed" ^[6] . Viktor Andriyanov in his book Kosygin ( ZhZL ) argued that Dodolev predicted the collapse of the USSR in the late 70s ^[3] .

He died in Moscow and was buried at the Rogozh Old Believer Cemetery ^[5]

• Order of the Red Star
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree
• two medals “For Courage”
• Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Anniversary medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Anniversary medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Anniversary medal “Forty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
• Anniversary medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

Most of the works of Yuri Dodolev are novels and short stories, which take place during the Great Patriotic War and which show the moral choice of a young man in the most dramatic moments of his life. They wrote about Dodolev's prose ^[7] .

In his first novels, Dodolev depicted the life of his courtyard and the inhabitants of the old, wooden houses surrounding him, both before the war of 1941-1945, and immediately after its end. In his work, two topics are covered: criticism of the unprincipled acquisition of material wealth, and the love of a man and a woman, in particular, deep, sincere love, its strength, the difference between this form of her and fleeting hobbies. Related to this are topics of constancy in love, strength or weakness of the character of people.

Yuri Bondarev ^[8] :

Igor Voevodin ^[9] :

Yuri Geiko ^[8] :

Sergey Yesin ^[8] :

Ruslan Kireev ^[8] :

Albert Likhanov ^[8] :

Alexander Prokhanov ^[8] :

Andrey Yakhontov ^[8] :

Tale

• “What was, was” (1975, Young Guard Publishing House), ISBN 5-235-00150-8
  • 2nd ed. (1988)
    • 3rd ed. (1990)
• “What was, was. At Shabolovka, that fall ... ”(1983, Soviet Russia Publishing House). The book includes the novels “What was, was” and “On Shabolovka, that fall ...”. Both stories share a common theme of the spiritual formation of the hero of the works - a young Muscovite of the 40s. In the preface, Igor Zolotussky noted: “Dodolev is an ideal writer and an unsweetened writer, his prose is based on these two states, on their differences.”
• “Just Life” (1983, 1987 and 1989, publishing house “Soviet Writer”). The book was awarded the prize of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR ^[10] .
  • 2nd ed. (1987)
    • 3rd ed. (1989)

Storybooks

• “Immediately after the war” (1981). The collection includes the novels “My epaulets” and “Believe”, as well as the stories “Memory”, “Appendage”, “Immediately after the war” ^[11] .
• The Long, Long Echo (1982, Sovremennik Publishing House)
• "My epaulettes" (1983, publishing house "Soviet writer")
• "Fellow soldiers" (1985, publishing house "Contemporary")
• “In May the Forty-Fifth” (1986, publishing house “Soviet Writer”)
• “Biography: Tales and Story” (1989) ISBN 5-270-00388-0 ^[12] .

Posthumous Editions

In 2014, the publishing house “ Olma Media Group ” published in the series “We Are Echoes of the Great War” a collection of short stories by Yuri Dodolev entitled “What was, was” ( ISBN 978-5-373-06140-7 ), the book “Immediately after the war” "( ISBN 978-5-373-06769-0 ) and the collection" Long, long echo "( ISBN 978-5-373-06209-1 ) ^{[13] [14]} .

In a review published in the newspaper Moskovskaya Pravda , it was specifically noted that “a detailed and verified introduction by Igor Zolotussky was sent to the stories” ^[15] .

The books of Yuri Dodolev are translated into foreign languages ​​and published in a number of socialist countries. Among them:

• “Was war, ist vorbei” (1976, Verlag Neues Leben), GDR ^[16]
  • 2nd ed. (1977, BuchClub 65)
• “Ze dne na den” (1976, publishing house “Svoboda”), Czechoslovakia ISBN 8020411909 , ISBN 9788020411907 ^[17]
• “Război” (1976, publishing house “Editura de stat pentru literatură şi artă”), Romania
• Farkascsorda: kisregények (1978, Európa), Hungary
• Verim (1980, Smena Publishing House), with a preface by Yuri Bondarev, Czechoslovakia ^[18]
• “Zo dňa na deň” (1983, Smena Publishing House), with a preface by Yuri Bondarev, Czechoslovakia
• Jesień (1983, Czytelnik Publishing House), Poland
• “Beat, Shaw Beat” (1983, publishing house “ Narodnaya Kultura ”), with a foreword by Atanas Svilenov, Bulgaria
• Ősz (1983, Újmagyar könyvkiadó publishing house), Hungary

• Wife - Klavdia Vasilievna Aleinikova (b. 1933), teacher at the Moscow Aviation Institute ;
• Son - Yevgeny Dodolev (born 1957), journalist;
• Brother - Mikhail Dodolev (07.29.1928–23.12.2001), historian (author of books and monographs: “People’s Party and the Establishment of the Fascist Regime in Italy”, “Russia and Spain 1808-1823”, “Anti-Fascist Struggle in the First Years” Mussolini’s dictatorship ”,“ Russia and the problems of the German Confederation in the early years of the Holy Union ”,“ Vienna Congress in the historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries ”( ISBN 5-201-00536-5 ).

• Ruslan Kireev

• Ruslan Kireev about Yuri Dodolev
• Yuri Dodolev about the conflict between Vladimir Bondarenko and Andrey Yakhontov
• 2015 Edition Review