Shepel, Alexander Dmitrievich

Alexander Shepel was born on July 4, 1937, but the date of birth is recorded in 1938 in the village. Tuilets Cherkasy district, Cherkasy region, Ukrainian SSR in the family of a collective farmer.

Origin

Father - Dmitry G. Shepel (1899; p. Tubiltsy, Kiev province - January 7, 1983; p. Tubiltsy, Cherkasy region) - a collective farmer, born in a peasant family. In 1916, he volunteered for the front in World War I and served in the troops of A.A. Brusilov , and after that in the Civil War in the Red Army until April 1919. Was injured. He fought in World War II , during the crossing of the Dnieper in 1943, was seriously wounded, sent to a hospital, from which he returned home in 1947.

Mother - Ekaterina Nikitovna Stadnik (died January 11, 1972; Cherkasy) - a collective farmer, worked on collective farm fields, her parents got married in 1919.

Brothers: Nikolai (1920 - died October 24, 1944) 100 km from Warsaw and was buried in Siedlce in Poland), Ivan (1926) at the beginning of 1942, the Nazis stole his brother Ivan to Germany and there he was in a concentration camp until April 20 1945, liberated by Soviet troops and there he was called up for military service.

Not only parents took an active part in his upbringing, but also Zinovya’s grandmother, brothers Nikolai and Ivan, as well as cousin Matryona Stadnik.

Childhood

Alexander Shepel spent his childhood in the village of Tubiltsy (at that time in the Kiev region).

During the German occupation (1941-1944), the fourteen-year-old neighbor's teenager, namesake Lenya Shepel, the son of a policeman acting on the instructions of the commander of the Cherkasy partisan battalion Theodosius Savchenko, organized a children's partisan detachment in the village, which he called the "Homeland" platoon. It included children of different ages: Vladimir Garkusha, Nikolai Bakum, Demyan Ishchenko (son of the police chief), Peter Pinchuk, Alexander Shepel, Lenya Egorchishin, Mikhail, Olga Yatsenko, Nadezhda, Sonya, Lida, Galina - Alexander's neighbors. The unit’s informant was Andrei Cheberyak, who was left without a hand, and after that he became a teacher and director of the school. At first, the detachment stole weapons and ammunition from the Germans and threw it into the swamp. They punctured car cylinders, cut seats, loaded sand into gas tanks, and after their actions intensified: they blew up a German automobile and tank filling station and ammunition depot.

During the commander’s assignment, Alexander Shepel was in October 1943 blown up by a German watch grenade. A German surgeon operated on it in secret from the Germans in a neighboring house with the hospital, removing fragments from the body. To this day, he carries a Hitler shard in his body, which the surgeon did not have time to extract.

After the liberation of the village by the Soviet army (January 1944), he was treated for a long time.

In 1946 he entered the Tubil seven-year school, which he graduated in 1953.

Further Biography

Alexander's brother, Nikolai, died on October 24, 1944 in Poland, 100 km from Warsaw, and was buried in the cemetery of the soldiers of the Soviet Army in Siedlce (Poland). The second brother Ivan, who was stolen by the Nazis in Germany, was held in a concentration camp and was liberated by the troops of the Soviet Army, and from there he was called up for military service. He returned home in 1954.

In July 1954, Alexander enrolled in a mining school in the village of Cherkasskoye st. The winter mountains of the Ukrainian SSR, which he graduated in July 1955. After that, he worked as a bricklayer in the SMU of the city of Lutugino of the Ukrainian SSR, and then as a bricklayer of the UNR No. 127 of Saki.

December 1, 1957 was called up for military service in the Soviet Army. During the service he graduated from a tank school, diving and evening division party.

In July 1960, he left for a ticket to the virgin lands in the city of Kokchetav of the Kazakh SSR, where he worked as a bricklayer in the SU-2 of the Kokchetavstroy trust until January 1961, and after the decision of the City Party Committee, he was sent to work in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Kokchetav Region. Kazakh SSR. He held the following posts: policeman, detective officer of the criminal investigation department, senior detective officer and head of the criminal investigation department of the regional center (Kokchetav city). During this period, he graduated from the Alma-Ata police school and entered the Kazakh State University at the Faculty of Law.

In December 1968 he returned home to the village. Tubiltsy, he worked as an educator of the Cherkasskhimstroi trust, and in July 1969 he was a secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Shock Republican Komsomol Construction of Ukraine (Dnepropetrovsk). At the time of his return to his homeland, he transferred from Alma-Ata University to study at Kiev, which he graduated in 1970.

In July 1970, he returned to Kokchetav and was hired by the prosecution authorities.

Positions: investigator of the prosecutor’s office of the city of Kokchetav, senior investigator of the prosecutor’s office of the Kokchetav region, prosecutor of the Shchuchinsky district of the Kokchetav region, prosecutor of the city of Kokchetava, head of the investigative department of the prosecutor’s office in Almaty, head of the investigative department of the prosecutor’s office in Tashkent region, deputy prosecutor of Tashkent, and. about. Prosecutor of Tashkent, 1st Deputy Prosecutor of the Leninabad Region of the Tajik SSR, and. about. prosecutor of the Leninabad region, prosecutor of the investigative department of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, 1st deputy prosecutor of the Golovinsky inter-district prosecutor of Moscow, 1st deputy prosecutor of the Northern District of Moscow, Tushinsky inter-district prosecutor of Moscow.

After retiring (May 2000), until August 2002, he worked as an adviser to the Prefect of the North-Western Administrative District of Moscow.

Since 2002, he took up literary activities and in May 2009 was accepted as a member of the Writers' Union ^[2] .

Since 2018, he became a member of the board of the Academy of Russian Literature ^[3] .

• The first wife is Elena Timofeevna Bagaeva.
  • Son - Victor Shepel died June 20, 1989,
  • Son - Sergey Shepel serves in law enforcement.
• The second wife - Irina Anatolyevna Kultynova - works as the General Director of one of the companies in Moscow.
  • Daughter - Inessa - a lawyer in one of the companies in Moscow.
  • Son - Ruslan Shepel serves in law enforcement.

From January 1972 to the present, the stories, poems and articles of Alexander Shepel were published in newspapers and magazines: “Luch” - the newspaper of the city of Schuchinsk (Kazakhstan), the newspaper “Stepnoy lighthouse” of the city of Kokchetav, the newspaper “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda”, “Moscow writer "Moscow, magazines:" Socialist rule of law "," Worker "and" Light of the capital ", Moscow, in the almanacs" Moscow Parnas ", Moscow and" At the Nikitsky Gate ", Moscow, in the Belarusian literary and artistic, spiritually educational, scientific journal of the Union of Writers of the Union State, in Prague rafomane "the Czech Republic, in the" Literary Republic "Moscow City Organization of the Russian Union of Writers and others.

For the novels: “Alien Sin”, “Damned” and other books, February 19, 2009 was awarded the Prize named after him by the International Association of Battlemen and Marinists V.Pikulya with the presentation of the diploma and Gold Medal V.Pikulya.

In 2013, the Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia was awarded the diploma of the literary and public award “The Best Book of 2011-2013” ​​For the book “Confession of Sinners” with the award of the Silver Cross.

Novels

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• Service Error - (2006), ISBN 978-5-89653-210-1
• Alien Sin - (2006), ISBN 978-5-7330-0552-6
• Damned - (2007) ISBN 978-5-7330-0553-3 ^[5]
• Kiss of the Shaolin Orphan (2008), ISBN 978-5-9901835-1-3
• Without the right to life (2011), ISBN 978-5-91366-594-2
• Confession of Sinners (2012), ISBN 978-5-91366-456-3 ^[6]
• Captive of Envy (2012), ISBN 978-5-91366-498-3
• Ordered to return alive (2014), ISBN 978-5-91366-827-1
• Killers (2011), ISBN 978-5-905456-02-2
• Mayhem (2013), ISBN 978-6-91366-700-7
• Aspen count (2010), ISBN 978-5-89653-225-5
• Master of Prosecutorial Investigation vol. 1 - (2016), ISBN 978-5-906008-34-3
• Master of Prosecutorial Investigation vol. 2 - (2016), ISBN 978-5-906008-34-4
• Master of Prosecutorial Investigation vol. 3 - (2016), ISBN 978-5-906008-41-1
• On the edge of the abyss (2017), ISNB 978-5-906008-52-7
• When Homeland is in danger (2015), ISBN 978-5-906787-09-5
• Special task t. 1- (2017), ISBN 978-5-906008-65-7
• Special Assignment Vol. 2 - (2018), ISBN 978-5-906008-73-2
• Beyond Treason (2018), ISBN 978-5-906008-92-3
• Path of Fate (2007), ISBN 978-5-7330-05-52-1

Documentary Fiction

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• Forgotten Battalion (2012), ISBN 978-5-91366-385-6
• The Flaming Cross of Ukraine - Volume 1. (2010), ISBN 978-5-9901835-4-4
• The Flaming Cross of Ukraine - Volume 2. (2011), ISBN 978-5-9901835-2-0
• The Flaming Cross of Ukraine - Volume 3. (2011), ISBN 978-5-9901835-3-7
• The Crash of Erich Koch (2012), ISBN 978-5-91366-422-8
• The Aggression Argument (2011), ISBN 978-5-905456-04-6 ^[8]
• Russian soldier (2013), ISBN 978-5-91366-683-3 ^[9]
• To die in battle is happiness (2014), ISBN 978-5-91366-879-0
• Abdul Teyfuk (2015), ISBN 978-5-906008-28-2 ^[10]
• A. Rekunkov, Prosecutor General of the USSR (2017), ISBN 978-5-91597-083-9 ^[11]
• Kravtsov B.V. - Prosecutor of the RSFSR (2018), ISBN 978-5-00-095631-1
• A. Rekunkov (second edition with addition), (2018), ISBN 978-5-00-095619-9
• To die in battle is happiness (second edition with additions) (2015), ISBN 978-5-94655-281-3 ^[12]

Historical Journalism

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• Monarchs of the Holy Roman Empire (2012), ISBN 978-5-91-366-512-6
• There is no peace on the Dnieper (2016), ISBN 978-5-906008-32-9
• Europe under the wheels (2009), ISBN 978-5-89552-287-5

Storybooks

• Trap (2011), ISBN 978-5-905456-07-7
• The fate of the thief (2016), ISBN 978-5-00-095241-2 ^[14]
• Children's literature
• The Tale of King Anton and Prince Nikita (2008, 2016), ISBN 978-5-906008-40-4
• Riddles - guesses (2016), ISBN 978-5-902999-07-2

Poetry collections

• True poet (2008), ISBN 978-5-00-095613-7
• Different Fates (2018), ISBN 978-5-00-095613-7
• The winged eyelid flies with an arrow (2010), ISBN 978-5-89653-218-7
• Share of Happiness (2017), ISBN 978-5-906008-65-0

Memoirs

• 22 steps (2007)
• 23 steps (2013)
• Children's partisan platoon "Homeland" ^[15]
• In the Uzbek Flame (2019)

Medals:

• “For the development of virgin and fallow lands”,
• "800 years of Moscow",
• “300 years of the Russian fleet”,
• “For long-term, conscientious work”,
• "Veteran of labour",
• "Veteran of the prosecutor's office",
• "290 years of the prosecutor's office of Russia",
• Rudenko Medal
• “60 years of the battle for Moscow”,
• "90 years of the Russian police" and the badge of the USSR Prosecutor's Office "Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office."

• Prize named after V. Pikul with a gold medal;
• A.P. Chekhov Prize with a medal;
• A. M. Sholokhov Prize with a medal;
• Award named “Hero of our time” with the award of the Order of M. Yu. Lermontov;
• Award “The Best Book of 2013—2015” “When the Homeland is in Danger”;
• Award "The Best Book of 2011-2013." "Confession of Sinners" with the award of the Silver Cross;
• IGO diploma of the Union of Writers of Russia to the winner of the Literary Republic almanac contest with the presentation of the Golden Star statuette;
• diploma of the competition "Academy. Children's literature ”2017;
• diploma of the magazine “Light of the Capital” of the Academy of Poetry;
• Diploma of the Academy of Poetry of the series “Poetic Library of Russia” in 2018;
• Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Writers' Union of Russia, finalist of the contest "Year of the Volunteer" in 2018, etc.