Semyon Nikolaevich Samsonov (1912-1987) - Soviet writer, in 1949-1953, the secretary of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
Semyon Nikolaevich Samsonov | |
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Date of Birth | September 1, 1912 |
Date of death | 1987 |
Citizenship | the USSR |
Occupation | writer |
Awards and prizes | |
A front-line soldier, author of works on the Great Patriotic War, the most famous of which is the story “On the Other Side”.
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Biography
Born on September 1 (14), 1912, in the village of Novo-Nikolskoye, Akmola Region, Russian Empire . From the peasant family. Russian.
Even during his studies at school, from 1928, he began to work in the library hut , then in the local Village Council.
In 1930, as an active member of the Komsomol, he was sent to study at a joint school school.
In 1932 he was sent to the Urals - to build Uralmashzavod , then - to build Uralvagonzavod . He was elected as a foreman of the shop, head of the cultural department of the Central Committee of the construction trade union.
In 1940 he entered the Sverdlovsk Communist Institute of Journalism (in 1941 he joined the Ural State University named after A. M. Gorky ) as a faculty member, but because of the start of the war he left him and returned to the Urals.
During the Great Patriotic War
Until 1943 he worked at Uralmashzavod . Together with the special Ural Volunteer Tank Corps named after I. V. Stalin formed at the plant , he volunteered to go to the front.
In the Red Army from March 1943, Guard lieutenant, correspondent of the Corps newspaper "Volunteer". Member of the CPSU (b) since 1943.
Participated in battles on the Bryansk front, in July-August 1943 - participant of the Oryol offensive operation , from February 1944 on the 1st Ukrainian front, in March 1944, participated in the breakthrough of the German defense in the area of Procrurov-Ternopil . During the crossing of the Oder, he personally was at the crossing, holding a party meeting under a raid by enemy aircraft.
In battles, he proved himself as a dedicated, enterprising war correspondent, who did not stop in front of the difficulties and dangers of a combat situation.
- from the award list to the medal “ For Military Merit ”, March 29, 1944
For March 1945 - Guards. Art. a lieutenant, party organizer of the 131st separate sapper battalion of the 10th Guards Volunteer Tank Corps of the 4th Panzer Army.
Leading the party organization of the battalion in offensive battles in the Berlin sector, he directed all his strength and skills to educating the Communists in the spirit of implacable hatred of enemies. By example, Samson, by his own example, in battles to liquidate enemy strongholds, contributed to raising the high fighting spirit of the sappers.
- from the award list to the Order of the Red Star, signed by the commander of the battalion of the Guards. Major Gubin, May 15, 1945
Victory Day met in Berlin.
He was awarded two orders of the Patriotic War, I degree (1945, 1985), the Order of the Red Star (1945), medals "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Capture of Berlin."
After the war
In 1946 he returned to the Urals, from 1947 his stories and essays appear in collections and in the periodical press.
In 1949-1953 - Secretary of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Writers' Union of the USSR.
From 1953 until the end of his life he lived in the village of Raskuhiha, Polevsky District, Sverdlovsk Region.
He died in 1987, was buried in the churchyard of the village of Marmara .
Creativity
The author of stories about the Great Patriotic War. The first stories and essays from the front-line life began to be published in 1947.
In 1949, the novel “On the Other Side” was published, which by 1962 had survived 12 editions - including in Moscow (in Detgiz and Young Guard) and even translated into Chinese.
The author of the story "Tank" Pioneer "" about the fighting of the tank corps, the records from the front-line diary "In the battles for the Motherland", the essay "The engineers, sappers."
Memory
On May 2, 2015, a memorial plaque was opened on the writer's house in the village of Raskuhi , where he lived in 1953-1985.
Sources
- Semyon Nikolaevich Samsonov // Writers of the Middle Urals: biobibliographical reference book / comp. V. T. Anashkina. - Yekaterinburg: The Middle Ural Book Publishing House, 1965-201 p. - p. 145
- Semyon Nikolaevich Samsonov // Ural literary / A. A Shmakov, T. A. Shmakova - South Ural book publishing house, 1988 −366.
- Alexey Kozhevnikov - About one of the front-line writers
- Samsonov Semyon Nikolaevich // OBD "The feat of the people "