Balburov, Afrika Andreevich

African Balburov was born on May 5, 1919 in the Korsungai district, on the territory of the modern Zalarinsky district of the Irkutsk region .

After graduating from school in 1933, he came to Verkhneudinsk , studied at the trade school, worked as a mechanic at the engine shop of a locomotive-carriage factory , as a milling machine operator, in 1935 worked as an instructor at the trade school ^[1] , he studied at an evening school.

In 1938 he graduated from the Buryat Pedagogical Institute . After the institute, he worked in the industrial department of the Buryat-Mongolskaya Pravda newspaper. In 1940 - 1941 he headed the literature and folklore sector of the Buryat-Mongolian State Institute of Language, Literature and History.

Creativity

Since childhood and adolescence became fascinated by literary work. Literary activity began in 1938 . Member of the Writers' Union of the USSR since 1939 . His first work was the book "Novels" ( 1941 ). During World War II he served in the Red Army ( 1941 - 1943 ). Member of the CPSU since 1942 .

After demobilization from the army, Balburov returned to his beloved work: he worked as a correspondent for the Pravda newspaper, then went to work at the Baigal magazine (“ Baikal ”). In 1961 he became the editor-in-chief of this literary publication (until 1974 ). He sets the collective goal - to bring the magazine to the all-Union level.

Sergei Tsyrendorzhiev, his associate, recalls: “Balburov is a man of irrepressible energy and fantasy — he immediately set a goal to bring the Baikal magazine to the all-union, and then to the international market. The magazine began to gain popularity, and soon began to diverge in more than thirty foreign countries - from America to Australia and New Zealand . ”

In 1969, A. Balburov publishes one of his most significant works - the historical novel “The Singing Arrows ” ; they are learning about life in the pre-revolutionary years.

Afrika Andreevich traveled extensively around Buryatia and the Buryat autonomous districts, throughout the USSR and foreign countries — Afghanistan , Thailand, and others. The results of these trips are stories, essays and short stories published in the Baikal journal and subsequently published in a separate book Far latitudes " ( 1974 ).

Thanks to the work of A. A. Balburov, a prominent Buryat writer and publicist, many readers in Buryatia and beyond have learned more and more about the Buryat people, their sons and daughters, their hard work, talent, feats and cultural ties with the peoples of other countries.

Afrika Andreevich Balburov died in Alma-Ata on January 17, 1980 . Buried in Ulan-Ude .

• The Novels ( 1941 )
• "We have in Zergetuy" ( 1959 )
• “We live behind Baikal” ( 1967 )
• Singing Arrows ( 1969 )
• Chow Chow ( 1972 )
• White Month ( 1973 )
• "On Friendship and Happiness" ( 1973 )
• "On the near and far latitudes" ( 1974 )
• Golden Root ( 1980 )
• About the narrators of the Buryat epic: “ Apollo Toroev ”, “The narrator Peohon Petrov ”, “Singers of the noble tribe”, “Land of the Alar sons”

• The street in Ulan-Ude is named after A. Balburov. ^[2] .

• Tulokhonov SM The Principle of Historicism in the Literature of Buryatia (on the basis of the work of Russian-speaking writers) // Thesis. WSTU. Ulan-Ude, 2004