Reutov, Alexander Andreevich

Born in 1936 in the village of Undinskie Kavykuchi, Chita Region. He graduated from secondary school. He worked as a lumberjack . After serving in the army, he worked as a miner in the Donbass plant of reinforced concrete products - 1 in Khabarovsk .

He arrived in Amursk on February 18, 1965. He worked at UM No. 4 as an electric welder, then as an assistant to the operator of a railway crane, worked on a construction site and mastered all the construction professions - a digger, concrete carpenter, and pipe-laying machine. He was the editor of the wall newspaper "Mechanizer", an active correspondent for the regional newspaper "Amurskaya Zarya".

His surname is listed in the 10th edition of the encyclopedia "The best people of Russia" ^[2] .

He began painting in 1965. He organized a regional museum of local lore in Amursk ^[3] .

Since 1982, a full member of the Russian Geographical Society .

As a photographer , he shot the ethnographic cycle of the indigenous peoples of the North, 130 works of this cycle are in the museum of N.K. Roerich in Moscow .

In 1998, A. A. Reutov, as an ethnographer, was awarded the title “Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation” for a cycle of work and research.

He organized four personal exhibitions in Moscow , two in Khabarovsk , as well as Omsukchan , Chita , Komsomolsk-on-Amur , Vanino , as well as in the educational center of Portland ( USA ).

Every year since 2003, on October 30, at the initiative of Reutov, Tsvetaev readings were organized on Krokhalev Island.

In 2007, he was a participant in the International Festival of Fine Arts of a primitive direction ^[6] .

As a sculptor, A.A. Reutov is the author of the “Monument to the First Builders of the City” ^[7] , established in 1998, of the commemorative signs “Toilers of the Amurlag” on Krokhalyov Island ^[8] , “to the participants of the first rafting on the Amur River” ^[9] , a memorial sign in honor of the 350th anniversary of the founding of the first Russian settlement on the Amur - Achansk town, "Defenders of the Fatherland" - in the military unit of the village of Teisin , "Achan excavation" - a detachment of Cossacks E.P. Khabarova , sculpture "Bear and Teddy Bear" ^[10] .

Creativity of A. Reutov is devoted to several newsreel stories, including in the films “Here is my homeland” ^[11] , “Roads of the strong”, “Start” directed by F.A. Fartusov , “Five evenings with Alexander Reutov and the light of the Fatherland in the soul”, “Romance”, “In the family circle”, “Moscow - Vladivostok” and others.

“He is an amateur artist, did not attend a special school, and this is probably even better. It is the originality of the soul that amazes me. My friends, when they see his works, are always surprised - how much expression is in them, but at the same time there is a compositional flair, a natural gift, a color scheme. That which always touches and excites. His characters in the pictures seem to move. "

- Alexander Ryabchuk, member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation ^[12] .

Exhibitions

• 1973 - participant of the All-Union exhibition "Glory to Labor" ( VDNH , Moscow).
• 1996 - exhibition at the Central Headquarters of the Russian Maritime Assembly in Moscow .
• 2010 - holding the maritime exhibition “ Okhotsk is the first Russian port in the Pacific Ocean ”, dedicated to the 360th anniversary of the city of Okhotsk, Khabarovsk Territory .
• 2014 - Exhibition "Fire and Winds of the Bosphorus" at the Museum of Naive Art in Moscow ^[13] .
• 2016 - an exhibition of materials dedicated to the stay of Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva in Amurlag .
• 2019 - In the Chamber Hall of the Museum of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva, a presentation of the exhibition of works from the “Funny Musicians” series was held ^[14] .

Publications

• A. Reutov. Crossroads of treasured meetings: [about coming to Amursk] // Amursk - my fate: pages of the history of Amursk in the memoirs of veterans, stories of active participants in the construction of the city .. - Khabarovsk, 1983. - P. 74. - 86 p.
• A. Reutov. [bibliogr. reference] // The age of maturity of the young city .: [dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Amursk] / B.D. Drozd, A.V. Vasilenko .. - Komsomolsk-on-Amur: "The Firebird", 2008. - 82 p.
• A. Reutov. The artist’s work is at the regional exhibition: [exhibition of A. A. Reutov’s works in the International Hall. inform. DVNGB Center] (Rus.) // Amur Dawn: a weekly information newspaper. - 2011. - September 12. - S. 9 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• A. Reutov. “Fire and Winds of the Bosphorus”: [about the artist’s exhibition at the Museum of Naive Art in Moscow] (Russian) // “Amur Dawn”: a weekly information newspaper. - 2014 .-- December 16. - S. 19 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• A. Reutov. Dedicated to Marina Tsvetaeva: [about the exhibition of A. A. Reutov in the House - Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva] (Russian) // Amursky Vestnik: a weekly information newspaper. - 2014 .-- April 15. - S. 6 .
• A. Reutov. “South Dam” [To the Day of the Builder] (Rus.) // “Amur Dawn”: a weekly information newspaper. - 2019 .-- August 6. - S. 8 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• A. Reutov. “Route to the Manege” (Russian) // “Amur Dawn”: a weekly information newspaper. - 2019. - July 9. - S. 19 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• A. Reutov. “We see Amursk through the years” [To the day of the builder] (Russian) // Our City of Amursk: a weekly information newspaper. - 2019. - August 6 ( No. 32 (414 ). - S. 2. - ISSN 2542-1425 .

• Marine medal “For posterity as an example” (to the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet)
• Two signs "ENEA" of the USSR .
• Certificate of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR .
• Two diplomas of the Academy of Arts .

• N. Pushkar. Worker, artist, local historian: [about A. A. Reutov] (Russian) // Amur Dawn: a weekly information newspaper. - 1973. - January 25. - S. 3 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• V. Tumanov. Orange sails: [about A. A. Reutov] // Worker / V. Tumanov. - Khabarovsk : Book. Publishing House, 1973.- S. 366.- 372 p.
• S. Torbin. Find yourself: tell us about the honorable citizens of the city of Amursk: [A. A. Reutov] (Russian) // Amur Dawn: a weekly information newspaper. - 1983 .-- July 14. - S. 1 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• G. Tolmachev. Letter from the editors: [about the first builder of the city A. A. Reutov] (Russian) // Amur Dawn: a weekly information newspaper. - 1988. - June 14. - S. 3 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• N. Tarasenko. “Watercolors and paints”: [letter about the first builder of the city A. A. Reutov] (Russian) // “Amur”: a weekly information newspaper. - 1988. - June.
• G. Tolmachev. The muse in working clothes: [about the artist A. Reutov] (Russian) // Amur Dawn: a weekly information newspaper. - 1990. - April 14. - S. 4 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• G. Zamyatin. Reutov - with love: [A. A. Reutov is 70 years old] (Russian) // Amur Dawn: a weekly information newspaper. - 2006. - April 12. - S. 2 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• G. Tolmachev. An artist from our yard: [about the artist, local historian A. A. Reutov] // Tolmachev, G. Amursk: people, years, events. / G. Tolmachev. - Amursk , 2006 .-- S. 226. - 240 p.
• L. Guselnikova. Alexander Reutov and his painting “Singer”: [A. Reutov is presented in the book “Festnaiv”] (Rus.) // “Amur Bulletin”. - 2007. - January 8. - S. 11 .
• E. Mironenko. Not trying to please: [A. Reutov’s creative evening took place in Khabarovsk] (Russian) // Pacific Star : a daily social and political newspaper. - 2008. - April 5. - S. 4 .
• app. G. Zhestkova. Not a hobby, but a form of life: [interview with the honorary citizen of Amursk A. A. Reutov on the eve of his 75th birthday] (Russian) // Amur dawn: a weekly information newspaper. - 2011. - March 29. - S. 9 . - ISSN 2412-9313 .
• A. Grigoriev. Morning call to A. A. Reutov: [75 years of the national nugget of Amursk - A. A. Reutov] (Russian) // " Pacific Star ": a daily socio-political newspaper. - 2011. - April 5. - S. 2 .
• I. Langin. The first place was taken by an Amur resident: [Alexander Reutov took first place in the regional competition of readers, dedicated to. 200th anniversary of the writer Ivan Goncharov] (Rus.) // “Our city Amursk”: a weekly information newspaper. - 2011 .-- March 6. - S. 4 .
• M. Karpach. ... And there are no other worries: 75 years to A. A. Reutov (rus.) // Amur Gazette: a weekly socio-political newspaper. - 2011. - April 18. - S. 2 .
• M. Karpach. The soul will not fall asleep: Moscow spring of the Amur Pirosmani: [about A. A. Reutov] (Russian) // Amur Gazette : a weekly socio-political newspaper. - 2014 .-- May 30. - S. 4 .
• O. Apollonova. Our Don Quixote. In Khabarovsk, a meeting with a famous artist (Russian) // "Arguments and Facts" : a weekly newspaper. - 2016. - April 13. - ISSN 0204-0476 .

• "Winds of Alesandra Reutov"   Video (archive "GTRK Komsomolsk ")
• "Anniversary Reutova A.A."   Video (Amursk TV Channel)