Chernousov, Anatoly Trofimovich

Father, Trofim Antonovich Chernousov, died at the front on August 2, 1943 and was buried in a mass grave in the Voroshilovgrad region, after which Anatoly Chernousov was raised by his mother Evdokia Ivanovna and his grandfather Anton Fomich, who replaced his father and taught, according to the writer, “to persevere in any work. " The memory of the difficult post-war childhood among the old-timed population of South-Western Siberia, the chaldons , formed the basis of the story “Chaldons”.

Since 1959, after graduating from the Omsk Polytechnic Institute, he worked as a design engineer at the Siblitmash Novosibirsk plant. Then he taught at the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Transport. In parallel with his main work, he conducted active social activities, was a pioneer leader, a teacher at the Physics and Mathematics School of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He traveled a lot with his students.

With a backpack behind him, walking and skiing, he passed the Carpathians, Polesie, Crimea, the Caucasus, Gorny Altai, Sayan Mountains, Mountain Shoria, the Baltic States, the Volga Region, the Urals and the Caspian. Kayaking - along the Irtysh River, on boats - along Lake Teletskoye, along the Angara, Baikal and Dnieper. He went down with cavers to caves, participated in an expedition to the place of impact of the Tunguska meteorite. In Soviet times he visited Italy, Greece, India and Ceylon.

In 1974, Anatoly Chernousov was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
Since 1975, he combined his main literary activity with work in the Siberian Lights magazine .
In 1987 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.

During Perestroika, he headed the Novosibirsk Regional Writing Organization.

Personal life

In 1973 he married Anna Pavlovna Pavlyukevich, proofreader of the Novosibirsk Book Publishing House. They had two daughters, Julia (1974) and Olga (1984).

The first publication of Anatoly Chernousov in print took place in 1968 - the story “Hobbies of an Engineer Zabrodin” was published in the Siberian Lights magazine, which attracted the attention of readers and critics by the sharpness of the topic and the psychological accuracy of the characters.

The first book of the writer, “Crews must be prepared” was published in 1971 at the West Siberian Publishing House and declared itself through the lips of a new hero: “We can’t live this way, comrades. We need something new, interesting ... ". According to this book, a two-part musical film “Breakfast on the Grass” (1979) was put on central television.

The stories and novels of Anatoly Chernousov touched on acute social problems. It is known that in Soviet times, storming was a big problem in production. In the mouth of the protagonist Andrei Skvortsov ("Trainee"), the author makes harsh statements about the causes and consequences of this phenomenon.

During the literary activity, the author has published more than a dozen stories, a novel, many stories and short stories.
His undivided sympathies have always remained on the side of people who are not indifferent, restless, energetic, purposeful, not in words, but in fact, opposing routine, red tape and irresponsibility.

Thirteen books were published in the Novosibirsk book publishing house and in the publishing houses of the capital.
The stories and tales of Anatoly Chernousov were published in the magazines Siberian Lights, Smena, Ural Pathfinder, Soviet Literature, Our Contemporary, in Roman Newspaper and Literary Newspaper. Some stories were published in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland.

• Crews must be prepared (novels and short stories, Novosibirsk, West-Siberian Book Publishing House, 1971)
• Young people (novels “Unusual business”, “Trainee”, Moscow, publishing house “Young Guard”, 1975)
• Do what you came for (novels and short stories, publishing house "Young Guard", 1978)
• Chaldons (novel, Novosibirsk, West Siberian Book Publishing House, 1982)
• The Second House (novels, Novosibirsk, West Siberian Book Publishing House, 1984)
• In combination (novel, short stories, Moscow, “Soviet Writer”, 1986)
• Predestination (short stories, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk book publishing house, 1986)
• The novels “Trainee”, “Aliens”, “The Second House” (Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Book Publishing House, 1987)
• Kroogi (novel, Novosibirsk, Book Publishing House, 1990).

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