Karabeles, Andrey Vasilievich

Andrei Karabeles was born in the family of a forester and all his early childhood passed among the Carpathian mountains . He later graduated from the Mukachevo Russian Gymnasium (1925), then the Greek Catholic Uzhgorod Theological Seminary (1928) and the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague (1934).

Already in his student years, the poet published the first collections of poems, all in Russian - "Selected poems" (1928), "In the rays of dawn" (1929). In 1932 he converted to Orthodoxy . After completing his studies at the university, Andrei Karabeles worked as a teacher in an elementary school (1934–1937), taught at the Mukachevo Russian Gymnasium (1937–1938), and edited the student magazine “Our aspirations”.

In March 1939, he was arrested by the Hungarian authorities, then released under an amnesty and went to the Czech Republic , where he participated in the anti-fascist movement. In 1942-1945 he was in Nazi concentration camps.

In 1945-1953, the director of the gymnasium in Svitavy (Czech Republic), from 1953 he became a teacher at the Safarik University in Presov . He joined the Ukrainian section of the Union of Slovak Writers , wrote in Russian. In the postwar years, the novel “Living Shadows”, the novel “Last Nights”, the collection of short stories “In the Mountains and Forests”, and the poetry “On the Shores of Others” were written.

During the crisis of 1956 he criticized the socialist system, for which he was expelled from the Writers' Union, he went to the Czech Republic. After a positive publication about the poet Pyotr Lintur in early 1957, a criticism of ideological "sins" in the works of Andrei Karabeles developed in Transcarpathia. In 1964 he returned to Transcarpathia, where he soon died.

• Karabeles Andrey. In the Carpathians: A collection of poems. Pryashev, 1955 .-- 245 p.
• Karabeles Andrey. In the rays of dawn. Uzhhorod: Publishing House Islands "School assistance", 1929. - 336 p., 1 p. Portr.
• Karabeles Andrey. Selected Poems. Uzhhorod: Book printing G. Miravchik, 1928 .-- 96 p. - (Publishing house of the cultural and educational society named after Alexander Dukhnovich in Uzhgorod. Issue 36)
• Karabeles Andrey. At the deadline ...: (Notes from the Nazi concentration camps) / Preface. The Poet Prisoner. Pryashev, 1953.- 332 s. - 2000 copies

• Voloshchuk I. Poetry of A.V. Karabeles // Duklya, Pryashiv, 12, 1, 1964.
• Pop I. Karabeles Andrey Vasilyevich // Encyclopedia of Subcarpathian Russia. Uzhhorod, 2005, S. 202-203.
• Homa V. Golgotha ​​sings (before the 85th birthday of A.V. Karabeles) // Duklya, Pryashiv, 40, 1, 1964.

• To the anniversary of the Carpathian singer
• Alien to all modes.