Voronkova, Lyubov Fedorovna

She was born on September 4 (17), 1906 in Moscow, studied at the city school, then at the Stroganov school . After the family left Moscow and settled in the village of Koskovo near Moscow, they had to leave school. Returning to Moscow, Lyubov Fedorovna worked as a journalist, traveled around the country a lot, and wrote about rural workers.

The first poems were published in Komsomolskaya Pravda , the first book of short stories Shurka was published in 1940 . Then books about the war followed, including the novel “A Girl from the City”.

Voronkova’s tales are always deeply consonant with what her readers live in this period of time. Many of them are documentary. For example, the Altai Tale is about the life of young gardeners in the Altai Mountains ^[1] .

She wrote the last years of her life on a historical topic: about the childhood and youth of the Macedonian king, about his conquests. After a trip to Central Asia, Lyubov Fedorovna wrote a book about the life of Uzbek children, "Garden under the Clouds."

She died on January 20, 1976 . She was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery (plot number 2).

• 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (10/20/1956; 11/11/1966)
• medals

• Collected works in 3 volumes. M., Children's literature, 1986-1987
• Walking towards (1930)
• Bread Front (1930)

Children's books

• Black currant. M., Young Guard, 1932, 1933
• Shura. M.-L., Detizdat, 1940
• Summer. M.-L., Detizdat, 1940
• Dashing days. M.-L., Detgiz, 1942
• Forest hut. M.-L., Detgiz, 1943
• Girl from the city. M.-L., Detgiz, 1943. The Tale
• Village Gorodishche. M.-L., Detgiz, 1947. The Tale
• Sunny day. M.-L., Detgiz, 1948. The Tale
• It's snowing. M.-L., Detgiz, 1949. The Tale
• Golden Keys (1950)
• Altai story. M.-L., Detgiz, 1951
• Girlfriends go to school. M.-L., Detgiz, 1951. A Tale
• Restless Man (1953)
• Mug of milk (1953)
• Week (1953)
• Blue Cloud (1954)
• Older sister (1955)
• Masha is confused. M., Detgiz, 1956
• The horn is calling the Hero. M., Detgiz, 1957 (co-authored with K.V. Voronkov )
• Fedya and Danilka. M., Detgiz, 1958. A Tale
• Asterisk Commander. M., Detgiz, 1960. A Tale
• In a large family. (1959)
• What can a person do. (1960)
• Personal happiness (1961)
• And if the grandmother ordered? (1963)
• Childhood on the outskirts. M., Detgiz, 1959. A Tale
• The magic coast. M., Children's Literature, 1964. Fairy Tale
• Visiting Grandma Martha's Tale
• Swan geese. (1966) The Tale
• Where is your home? M., Children's literature, 1964
• Live Flashlight (1967)
• Little Falcon (1973)
• Garden under the clouds. M., Children's Literature, 1975. A Tale
• Granddaughter Vanya. M., Kid, 1976 (Collected Stories)
• Elder sister. Story. (1972)

Children's historical stories

• Fiery trace of life - about Cyrus II the Great (1968) ^[2]
• Messenian War (1969) ^[3]
• The son of Zeus. M., Children's literature, 1971 - the first part of the dilogy about Alexander the Great
• In the depths of time. M., Children's literature, 1973 - the second part of the dilogy about Alexander the Great
• Hero of Salamis. M., Children's literature, 1975 - about Themistocles ^[4]
• Frantic Hamza. M., Children's literature, 1978 - about the Uzbek poet, playwright and educator Niyazi ^[5]

All of Voronkova’s historical stories, except for one (“In the depths of centuries”), were originally published in the journal “Pioneer” , with interesting illustrations by various artists; the story “Son of Zeus” had a different name in the magazine version - “The Youth of Alexander” ^[6] .

The first separate editions of the three novels by Voronkova (“Son of Zeus”, “In the depths of centuries”, “Hero of Salamis”) were illustrated by the outstanding artist Igor Ilyinsky .

• Kamenetskaya S. B. Voronkova Lyubov Fedorovna // Russian children's writers of the XX century: Bibliographic dictionary. - M .: Flint ; Nauka , 1997 .-- pp . 101-103 . - ISBN 5-02-011304-2 .

• Voronkova, Lyubov Fedorovna in the library of Maxim Moshkov
• http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/V/VORONKOVA_Lyubov'_Fedorovna/_Voronkova_L.F..html