Zotkin, Vladimir Matveevich

Vladimir Matveevich was born on September 25, 1924 in the village of Volchikha, Altai Territory. He grew up in the family of a partisan movement participant in Siberia during the years of Kolchakism. In 1941 he graduated from high school. Member of World War II .

At the beginning of World War II, he volunteered for the army. In 1942 he graduated from the Irkutsk Military School of Aviation Mechanics, then the Trans-Baikal Infantry School. From October 1942 to May 1944, Vladimir Zotkin fought on the Stalingrad, Don, Voronezh, Stepnoy, and 2nd Ukrainian fronts. He was a mortar man, scout, submachine gunner, artilleryman. Vladimir Matveevich Zotkin was injured. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and many medals.

Member of the CPSU since 1943 . He worked in the Rostov Oblast Executive Committee.

After demobilization and graduation from the Novosibirsk Regional Party School, he was at party work in Siberia. In 1948 he entered the law faculty of Tomsk University, in 1953 he graduated from this faculty at the University of Rostov.

From 1953 to 1963 he worked as an assistant to the chairman, then as a senior instructor of the Rostov regional executive committee, and until the end of 1964 - as the head of the protocol department of the North Caucasus State Economic Council.

Vladimir Matveevich Zotkin died in 2004 .

Professionally engaged in literary work since 1965. All the works of Vladimir Matveevich Zotkin - about the war. Personally experienced by the writer himself, the stories of people who fought on other fronts, archival documents of the war years underlie his stories.

The first publication of V.M. Zotkina dates back to 1968 when his Front Notes appeared in the journal Don. Later in the same journal two more works of the writer were published: “Above the Native Land” ( 1979 ) and “In the Volga and Don Steppes” ( 1982 ).

Vladimir Matveevich author of books: “At the Volga”; “On the Kursk Bulge”; "Roads of soldiers"; “In the Volga and Don Steppes” and others. In the first book, “At the Volga”, the author's attention is mainly paid to the depiction of military events related to the defeat of the Paulus army near Stalingrad, in the second (“On the Kursk Bulge”) and the third (“Soldier’s Roads” ») Books about a man in a war. They depict literary portraits of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War with various fates and characters. Their first and last names are genuine.

Separate editions

• On the Kursk Bulge. - M.: Publishing House DOSAAF, 1976.

• At the Volga. - Rostov n / a: Book. Publishing House, 1977.

• Roads are soldier's. - Rostov n / a: Book. Publishing House, 1984.

• In the Volga and Don steppes. - Rostov n / a, 1987.

• At the Volga: Front notes. - Don, 1968. - No. 2. - S. 116-145. - No. 3. - S. 118-128.

• On Kursk: Notes of a soldier. - Don, 1971. - No. 5. - S. 134-158. - No. 6. - S. 162-186. - No. 7. - S. 122-158.

• Roads are soldier's. - Don, 1974. - No. 12. - S. 152-154.

• Above the native land: Dokum. Story. - Don, 1979. - No. 11. - S. 137—162.

• In the Volga and Don steppes: East. storytelling. - Don, 1982. - No. 11. - S. 43-113.

• Zakrutkin V. The Beginning of a Creative Biography: On Young Rostov Writers, Including about V.M. Zotkin. - Literary newspaper, 1971. - December 15. - S. 5.

• Zakrutkin V. About the author. - Zotkin V. On the Kursk. - M., 1976. - S. 188-189.

• Agurenko B. Long Memory: Memoirs of Sergeant V. Zotkin. - Evening Rostov, 1976. - June 11.

• Writers of the Don: Bibliography. - Ed. 2nd, rev. and add. - Rostov n / a: Book. Publishing House, 1986. - 416 p.
• Don literary. The writers of Russia. Sholokhov region. XIX-XXI centuries.: Ref. ed., Comp. Gubanov G. - Rostov n / A, 2006 .-- 512 p. ISBN 5-481-00623-5

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