Alexandrovsky, Victor Nikolaevich

Viktor Nikolaevich Aleksandrovsky was born on September 14 ( September 27, New Style) in 1917 in the city of Troitskosavsk ( Kyakhta ), Trans-Baikal Region, in the family of a veterinarian.

In 1921, his father was stabbed with a saber by Cossacks from the detachment of Baron Ungern ^[3] . The family fled to Irkutsk , where the future writer graduated from high school.

In 1935 he entered and graduated with honors from the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (TPU) with a degree in mechanical engineering of internal combustion engines.

In 1940 he arrived by distribution in Khabarovsk , worked as a foreman at the Khabarovsk Shipyard named after Kirov (now OJSC Oston Plant named after S. M. Kirov) ^[4] . In 1941, he worked as the head of the diesel workshop ^[5] . During World War II received a reservation.

Says the writer’s son, Sergei Alexandrovsky :

“Throughout the war, he collected German diesel engines, which were removed from the captured Nazi ships and brought to the plant almost in the form of scrap. Father made the drawings, the team turned out the missing parts, then there was fitting, assembly and testing. It turned out to be a practically new diesel engine ” ^[6] .

In 1947 he was elected secretary of the party bureau of the plant.

In 1948, he was the 1st secretary of the Stalin (Industrial) District Party Committee. In 1951 - 2nd Secretary of the Khabarovsk City Party Committee for Industry.

Recalls the son :

“Dad did not like party work. He said: “Sometimes she’s kind of stupid.” And in 1986 he was even sharper. He repeated: "This system will collapse, and there will be a multi-party system." He was an excellent engineer. He wanted to be a designer of engines, and the party ordered him to be the head of a writing organization ... ”

Since 1955, he headed (executive secretary) the Khabarovsk branch of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR ^[7] and led it for more than 30 years - until his death.

In 1965, at the second congress of writers of the RSFSR, he was elected a member of the board, was a member of the editorial board of the journal "Far East". He conducted great public work as a member of the regional committee of the CPSU and deputy of the regional council. With his direct participation, independent writing organizations were created in all areas and territories of the Far East ^[8] .

In the spring of 1987 ( perestroika time) a meeting of writers took place in Khabarovsk, they began to make a noise: “Why does a writer with ten books manage all writers?” ^[9] Vyacheslav Sukachev (Springer), Alexander Mishkin, Sergey Kucherenko picked up criticism. And only poet Mikhail Aslamov stood up for Aleksandrovsky (from 1987 to 2018 - Chairman of the Board of the Khabarovsk Regional Branch of the Union of Writers of Russia) ^[6] .

Aleksandrovsky tragically died on March 24, 1987 in Khabarovsk ^[10] . He was buried in the Central cemetery of Khabarovsk, in the avenue of writers (sector No. 1) ^[11] .

Creativity

In 1951, the first essay “On a Forest Plot” was published on the pages of the magazine “Far East”.

In 1954, the first story, “Bon voyage,” was published in Khabarovsk. In 1957, the story was reprinted under the title “When We Are Seventeen” and the author was immediately admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR ^[12] .

His plays “Birthday” (1958) and “On the Border of Silence” (1963) were performed in the theaters of Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, and Sovetskaya Gavan.

Later the books “Venka-Cosmonaut”, “The Sea - My Happiness”, “Private Koshkin”, “My Friend Omgolon”, and the novel “Yulka” were published.

In 1968, his essays on the Far East “To the old addresses” and travel notes “To Sayn Bainu, Mongolia!” ^{[13] were} published.

The story “Warm rain” withstood three reprints in a short time and in 1984 was awarded the prize of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR.

He wanted to capture in the history of shipbuilders Nikolaevsk-on-Amur , write a book about them. He met in Moscow with Alexei Adamovich Goreglyad , who under Stalin was the Minister of the shipbuilding industry of the USSR. But there was not enough time ^[6] .

The heroes of his books are workers, engineers, fishermen, border guards, children.

He corresponded with Sergey Mikhalkov , Rasul Gamzatov , Andrey Prishvin, Peter Proskurin .

Wife - Galina Mikhailovna Aleksandrovskaya, doctor. In 1940, a daughter, Lida, was born [she worked as the chief physician of the Main Directorate for the Service of the Diplomatic Corps (GlavUpDK) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (5th building of the State Clinical Hospital named after S. P. Botkin )], in 1950 - her son Sergei [ FSB officer].

Commander of the Southern Front Rodion Malinovsky praised the trouble-free operation of German marine diesel engines of the brand Man , which were assembled in Khabarovsk and put on cruisers of the Black Sea Fleet . He asked: “Who made them?” They said to him: “Master of Alexandrovsky.” Already in peacetime, Rodion Malinovsky was appointed commander of the Far East Military District troops; he spotted Aleksandrovsky in Khabarovsk. Marshall asked the engineer: "Viktor Nikolaevich, what do you want?" Aleksandrovsky then lived with his family in the House of Specialists ^[14] in a two-room apartment. He replied: “We need silence to write ...” And Malinovsky gave him a chic apartment on the street. Istomina, 44 (the house is under the control of the Far Eastern Railway ) ^[6] .

From the writer's memoirs:

He was friends with the head of the Amur Shipping Company, Lieutenant General Zinovy ​​Georgievich Zakhvatov. They often traveled around the Amur.

Victor Alexandrovsky wrote the last play this way: he took a leave of absence, bought a boat and went by special permission to the Kazakevichevo duct to watch the border guards serve. The boat broke, it began to be carried to the border. Soviet writer nearly sailed to China! But Viktor Nikolaevich was not in vain a mechanical engineer. He repaired the engine on the water, started it and went to the Soviet coast.

Aleksandrovsky did not drink or smoke, did not swear. He could convince in words. The strongest curse for writers he had: "Are you crazy?!" ^[6]

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (08.22.1986)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (10/28/1967)
• medals
• Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR ^[15]
• Laureate of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR

The monument on the grave was made by the people's artist of the USSR, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Nikolai Vdovkin (he painted St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican ). There was also a bronze bas-relief, but it was removed.

Khabarovsk, st. Istomina, 44, apt. No. 10 ^[16] .

• Alexandrovsky V. N. Bon voyage [When we are seventeen]: A Tale. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1954. - 264 p.
• Alexandrovsky V.N. Sea - My Happiness: A Tale. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1963. - 64 p.
• Alexandrovsky V.N.Irishkin cockerel. - Fig. N. Pavlishina. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1980. - 48 p., ill.
• Alexandrovsky V.N. Yulka: A Tale. - 2nd ed. For Art. age. Fig. Yu. Rebrova. - M.: Det. lit., 1985 .-- 168 p.
• Alexandrovsky V.N. Warm rain: Tales. The artist. V. Alekseev. - M .: Sovremennik, 1986.- 336 p., Ill.
• Alexandrovsky V.N. Warm rain. Tales and stories. The artist. E. M. Fentisov. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1987. - 320 p.

Periodicals

• Where rivers merge // Border: Dokum. - artist the story of the Far East. the border. - Khabarovsk, 1976. - S. 390-394.
• A man with a suitcase: [On the young friends of the border guards] // Border: Dokum. - artist the story of the Far East. the border. - Khabarovsk, 1976. - S. 404-417.
• Always with the party, with the people: On the 50th anniversary of the First All-Union. congress of owls writers // Dal. East. - 1984. - No. 8. - S. 3-7.
• At the forefront: [On the work of Khabar. write. org.] // Lit. Russia. - 1985. - June 28. - S. 2.

• On conferring the honorary title of Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR to workers of cultural institutions and organizations [including Alexandrovsky V.N.]: Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme. Council of the RSFSR from September 21. 1977 // Vedomosti Verkhov. Council of the RSFSR. - 1977. - No. 39. - S. 659.
• Goodbye: [Obituary] // Dal. East. - 1987. - No. 4. - S. 160: portr.
• Writers of the Far East: Bibliographic Guide. Comp. E. M. Alenkina. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1973. - 304 p., pp. 32–35.
• Writers of the Far East. Bibliographic reference. Vol. 2. Comp .: T.V. Kirpichenko, L.N. Tsinovskaya. - Khabarovsk: Khabar. regional univers. scientific b-ka, 1989 .-- 384 p., pp. 27-30.
• Literary guide. Khabarovsk writers: fate and creativity. Bibliography, prose, poetry. Under the total. ed. M.F. Aslamova. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Khabarovsk Regional Writing Organization. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 2004. - 326 p., pp. 38–41 (creativity), 301 (biography).
• Selected prose of the journal Far East: Prose works of Far Eastern writers for 75 years: 1933-2008 / Author of the project and resp. for issue. V.V. Sukachev [V. V. Springer], ed. L.I. Milanich. - Khabarovsk: Ed. House Far East, 2008. - 608 p., pp. 18–31 (Private Koshkin, short story).
• V. N. Alexandrovsky - 60 years old // Lit. gas. - 1977 .-- Dec 7 - S. 4.
• Efimenko V. Viktor Alexandrovsky - 60 // Dal. East. - 1977. - No. 9. - S. 156-157.
• Tkachenko A. With tenderness: [On the 60th anniversary of the writer] // Lit. Russia. - 1977. - September 16. - S. 10.
• Khalov P. About the author // Aleksandrovsky V. When we are seventeen: Tales and stories. - Khabarovsk, 1983. - S. 408-413.
• Aleksandrovsky Victor Nikolaevich: [List of lit.] // Russian literature of Siberia. 1917-1970: Bibliogr. decree. - Novosibirsk, 1977. - Part 2. - S. 13-15.
• K. Pronyakin, I. Kharitonova. Friends and foes of the writer Alexandrovsky . / "Debry-DV", June 16, 2010
• Chernyavsky A. G. To be remembered. Essays. - Khabarovsk, 2018. - 160 p., Pp. 58-72 "Captured by perestroika."

Personal section of Aleksandrovsky Victor Nikolayevich on the site "Debry-DV".

Literary guide: V. Alexandrovsky