Протоиерей Константин Смирнов - Виктор Астафьев - Прокляты и убиты. часть 1 из 2 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Biography of the author

Ovsyanka - the native of the writer (far away, between the road and the Yenisei River)

Viktor Astafyev was born on May 1, 1924 in the village of Ovsyanka (Krasnoyarsk Territory) in the family of Lydia Ilyinichna Potylcina and Peter Pavlovich Astafyev. He was the third child in the family, but his two older sisters died in infancy. A few years after the birth of his son, Peter Astafyev goes to prison with the formulation of "wrecking". During the next trip to Lydia to her husband, a boat in which she sailed among others, rolled over. Lydia Potylcina, falling into the water, caught on a scythe for the rafting bon and drowned. Her body was found only a few days later. Victor then was seven years old. After the death of his mother, Victor lived with her parents - Ekaterina Petrovna and Ilya Evgrafovich Potlitsins. Viktor Astafyev spoke about the childhood conducted with her grandmother Katerina Petrovna and left the writer in the soul of the writer in the first part of the autobiography.

Leaving the conclusion, the father of the future writer married a second time. Having decided to go behind the Northern Wild Money, Peter Astafyev with his wife and two sons - Victor and the newborn Nikolai - goes to Igarka, where they sent his father, Pavel Astafyev, the dispossessed family of his father. In the summer of next year, Victor’s father concluded an agreement with the Igar fish factory and took his son for fishing fishing in a place between the villages of Karasino and Polo. After the end of Putin, returning to Igarka, Peter Astafyev got to the hospital. Thrown with the stepmother and relatives, Victor was on the street. For several months he lived in an abandoned hairdresser building, but after a serious incident at the school he received a referral to the orphanage.

In 1942 he volunteered for the front. He studied military affairs at the infantry school in Novosibirsk. In the spring of 1943 he was sent to the army. He was a driver, an arthruster, a signalman. Until the end of the war, Viktor Astafyev remained a simple soldier.

In 1943 he was awarded the medal "For Courage", for the fact that:

“In battle on 10/20/43, the Red Army soldier Astafyev V.P. Four times corrected the telephone connection with the advanced NP. When performing the task, from the close rupture of the bomb, was poured by the earth. Grief with hatred of the enemy, comrade. Astafyev continued to carry out the task under artillery-minute fire, collected scraps of the cable and again restored the telephone connection, providing an uninterrupted connection with the infantry and its support by artillery fire.

After demobilization in 1945, he left for the Urals, to the city of Chusova, the Molotov region (now Perm Territory).

In 1945, Astafyev married Maria Semenovna Koryakina. They had three children: Lydia’s daughters (born and died in 1947) and Irina (1948-1987) and son Andrei (born in 1950).

In Chusovo, Astafyev worked as a locksmith, a utility worker, a teacher, on duty at the station, a storekeeper.

In 1951, the first story of Astafyev “Civil Man” was published in the newspaper Chusovskaya Worker. Since 1951 he worked in the editorial office of this newspaper, wrote reports, articles, stories. His first book “Until the Future Spring” was published in Molotov in 1953.

In 1958, Astafyev was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1959-1961 he studied at the highest literary courses in Moscow.

From 1989 to 1991, Astafyev was the People’s Deputy of the USSR.

In 1993, he signed a letter of 42.

He died on November 29, 2001 in Krasnoyarsk. He was buried in oatmeal.