Bibik, Alexey Pavlovich

He was born on October 5 ( October 17 according to the new style) in Kharkov in 1878 , the son of a turner worker. He graduated from the city school. He worked as a student, turner, draftsman and designer in the railway workshops of Kharkov.

Since 1895 - member of the RSDLP . For active revolutionary activity, he was persecuted by the tsarist authorities and exiled. In 1900 he was arrested and exiled for three years to the Vyatka province . In 1903 he was again arrested for propaganda among peasants and exiled to the Arkhangelsk province . The events of 1905 freed him.

Member of the 1905 revolution in Russia . From the end of 1905 to 1911 he was in an illegal situation.

In 1911-1915 he worked as a designer at Riga engineering plants. Later, he moved to the city of Rostov-on-Don , where he worked in various institutions until 1938.

In 1932, fully engaged in literary work. In February 1938 he was arrested and spent 17 years in the gulag camps . At the end of 1946 he returned from the camp, was restored to the rights of a Soviet writer, but only in 1955 a collection of his works was released.

From the mid-1950s to 1976 he lived in the city of Mineralnye Vody .

He died on November 18, 1976 in Mineralnye Vody.

• One of the streets is named after L.P. Bibik in Mineralnye Vody; and in the house where he lived, on the initiative of the Stavropol Regional Writing Organization in July 1990, a museum of the writer was created.
• A memorial plaque is installed on a house in Rostov-on-Don along Suvorov Street, where the writer lived.

The author’s first story “On the Wharf” was published by the newspaper “Perm Territory” during the Vyatka exile in 1901. In 1912, A.P. Bibik published the first book of the novel "Towards the wide road", in which, on autobiographical material, it tells about the rallying of revolutionary-minded workers, the formation of the character and worldview of a young hero. The second book is devoted to the same theme - “On a black strip”, which saw the light after the October Revolution in 1921. In 1935, the novel “Towards a Broad Road” was published in Rostov-on-Don; its new edition includes both books. The books of A.P. Bibik contain pictures of pre-revolutionary factory life, the birth of protest in the working environment.

In subsequent years, the novel "To the wide road" was repeatedly reprinted. The first edition of the novel received a very unpleasant response by M. I. Kalinin in the Bolshevik Pravda, who noted both the "uncertain hand of a self-taught writer" and the "crudely-biased" arguments of the author about the events of the era of the revolution of 1905. In 1928-1929, Nedra Publishing House "Released the collected works of A. P. Bibik in 6 volumes. Some of his works have been translated into Ukrainian . In 1955 and 1962, collections of selected works were published, and in 1958 and 1966 - stories and short stories by L.P. Bibik.

The author of the novel “Katrusina Tower” (1930) - about the events of the Civil War in the south of the country, the novel “Klimchuk”, “The End of Filonovka” (1928), “The Tale of the Machine” (1934), “The Golden-Horned Tour” (1936), plays from working life: "Arkhipov", "On the night shift" (1917), "Erion" (1932), "In unknown countries" (1935).

In addition to novels, he wrote a number of short stories. They relate to pre-revolutionary time. Among them, one can note the story "Out of hours", which depicts the mood of a physically-tired worker, and the story "Callous Man", which gives a curious picture of the relationship between the working engineer and the student student. From recent stories published in various collections and magazines, it is necessary to note the “Communion Day” - a picture of the preparation and implementation of the May Day demonstration under the tsarist regime.

• To the wide road: a novel (1912)
• Tales and Stories (1966)
• Through the years and storms (1975)
• Stronger spirit in the struggle: memories of the events of 1905 // New World. - 1965. - N 12. - S. 139
• I remembered the old boiler: a story (1967)
• A little about my literary work (1962)
• The flute of Satan. He earned. Bear. Tusina truth (stories)

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1967)
• Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR (1972)

• Great Soviet Encyclopedia . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. 1969-1978.
• Gorky, M. About Bibik A.P. // M. Gorky. Collected works in 30 volumes. T. 24. - S. 105.
• Alov, V. The oldest working writer: about Alexei Pavlovich Bibik / V. Alov // Caucasian Health Resort. - 1968. - May 4 - S. 2.
• Baskevich, I. Proletarian writer of the first appeal: to the 100th anniversary of the birth of A.P. Bibik / I. Baskevich // Don. - 1977. - N 10. - S. 179 −182.
• Kalinin, M.A. Bibik. "To the wide road." (Ignat from Novoselovka). Novel. With a foreword by Lviv-Rogachevsky. SPb. 1914 / The Way of Truth. - 1914. - March 9 (No. 32). - S. 3.