Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich (poet)

Born November 18, 1923 in the village of Lopatino, Tarussky district, Kaluga province, in a peasant family.

Member of the Great Patriotic War ^[1] , radio operator, was awarded orders and medals for military merits.

After leaving the army he graduated in absentia from Moscow State University . He worked as the first secretary of the Tarussky district committee of the Komsomol, the head of the department of the regional newspaper "Young Leninist", the editor of one of the regional newspapers of the Kaluga region, the senior editor of the Prioksky book publishing house .

The first verses were published in 1947 in the newspaper of the Southern Group of Forces “Soviet Warrior”.

The first book of poetry was published in 1958. The second "Revelation" - in 1962. They were followed by collections of "Time and Heart", "Sparkle", "Tarussky pier" and others.

The collection of poems and poems “Noon” was published in 1973 by the Moscow publishing house “Sovremennik”, and the book “Over the Eternal River” (1983) was published there.

He was the executive secretary of the Kaluga Regional Organization of the Writers Union.

He died in August 1993 in Kaluga.

• Melodies of love [Text] / Alexander Avdonin / Tula: Priok. Prince publishing house, 1978
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich. Good friends [Text]: [Poems]. Kaluga: Gas. The Banner, 1958
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich. Bread, love and stars [Text]: [Poems] / [Il: V. Lukanin]. Tula: Priok. Prince publishing house, 1967
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich First teacher [Text]: [E. A. Dobromyslova. Wednesday school number 1 Maloyaroslavets]. Tula: Priok. Prince publishing house, 1966
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich. Revelation [Text]: Poems. Kaluga: Prince publishing house, 1962
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich Iskorka [Text]: Poems. Tula: Priok. Prince publishing house, 1965
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich Time and Heart [Text]: Poems. Kaluga: Prince publishing house, 1963
• Field of life: Poems, poems / Alexander Avdonin; [Art. N.V. Akinshin]. Tula: Priok. Prince Publishing House, 1983.
• Kaluga [Text]: [Album of reproductions] / [Preface A. Avdonin]; [Reproductions by E. Kireev, R. Kurchik, F. Yelgin [et al.]]. Moscow: Sov. artist, 1971
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich Tarussky berth [Text]: [Lirich. story]. [Meeting at the station]: [Poem]. [When the bird cherry blossomed]: [Excerpt from the poem] / [Il .: Tula: Priok. Prince publishing house, 1970
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich. Noon [Text]: Poems and poems. Moscow: Contemporary, 1973
• Avdonin, Alexander Nikolaevich Love [Text]: Poems and poems / [Il: N. A. Rashchektayev] [Tula]: Priok. Prince Publishing House, 1973.
• Love: poems and poems / A.N. Avdonin; [artist N. A. Raschectaev]. - Tula: Prioksky Book Publishing House, 1973. - 152 p. : ill. ; 14 cm. - Contents: Poems. Poems: Tarus mooring; Meeting at the station. - 15,000 copies.
• Above the eternal river: poems, poems / A.N. Avdonin. - Moscow: Sovremennik, 1983. - 109 p. : ill. ; 16 cm. - Contents: Poems; Poems: Early Bread; Meeting at the station; Tarussky berth: lyrical story. - 20,000 copies.
• Melodies of love / Alexander Avdonin. - Tula: Prioksky Book Publishing House, 1978. - 223 p. : ill. ; 17 cm. - (Prince Lyrics). - Cycles: cutting edge; Time and fate; Open space; There is this secret .. - 15,000 copies.

• Kaluga Encyclopedia / Ed. V. Ya. Filimonova. - 2nd ed., Revised. and add. - Kaluga: Publisher N.F. Bochkareva, 2005 .-- S. 10−11. - 494 p. - 3100 copies. - ISBN 5-89552-333-1 .
• Kaluga writers: biobibliogr. vocabulary. - Kaluga, 1981. - S. 8−10.
• Alexander Nikolaevich Avdonin / A.N. Avdonin // News. - 1993. - September 18.
• Exhibition-viewing "Writers of the Kaluga Territory: participants in the Great Patriotic War" // Website of the Kaluga Regional Library named after Belinsky. March 18, 2016.