Виктор Астафьев - Прокляты и убиты 01 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Author biography

Ovsyanka - the writer’s native village (in the distance, between the highway and the Yenisei River)

Victor Astafiev was born on May 1, 1924 in the village of Ovsyanka (Krasnoyarsk Territory) in the family of Lydia Ilyinichna Potylitsina and Pyotr Pavlovich Astafiev. 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, Pyotr Astafiev goes to prison with the wording “sabotage.” During Lydia's next trip to her husband, the boat in which she, among others, was sailing, capsized. Lydia Potylitsina fell into the water, caught her scythe on a floating boom and drowned. Her body was found only a few days later. Victor was then seven years old. After the death of his mother, Victor lived with her parents - Ekaterina Petrovna and Ilya Evgrafovich Potylitsin. Viktor Astafiev spoke about his childhood spent with his grandmother Katerina Petrovna and which left bright memories in the writer’s soul in the first part of his autobiography “The Last Bow”.

After leaving prison, the father of the future writer married for the second time. Deciding to go after the “northern wild money”, Pyotr Astafiev with his wife and two sons - Victor and newborn Nikolai - goes to Igarka, where the dispossessed family of his father, Pavel Astafiev, was sent. The following summer, Victor’s father entered into an agreement with the Igarsk fish factory and took his son on a commercial fishing trip to a place between the villages of Karasino and Poloy. After the end of the fishing season, returning to Igarka, Pyotr Astafiev ended up in the hospital. Abandoned by his stepmother and relatives, Victor ended up on the street. For several months he lived in an abandoned hairdresser's building, but after a serious incident at school he was sent to an 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 active army. He was a driver, artillery reconnaissance officer, and signalman. Until the end of the war, Viktor Astafiev remained a simple soldier.

In 1943 he was awarded the medal “For Courage” for:

“In the battle of October 20, 1943, Red Army soldier Astafiev V.P. fixed telephone communication with the advanced NP four times. While performing the task, due to a nearby bomb explosion, he was covered with earth. Burning with hatred for the enemy, Comrade. Astafiev continued to carry out the task even under artillery and mortar fire, collected pieces of cable and again restored telephone communications, ensuring uninterrupted communication with the infantry and its support with artillery fire.

After demobilization in 1945, he went to the Urals, to the city of Chusovoy, Molotov Region (now Perm Territory).

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

In Chusovoy, Astafiev worked as a mechanic, auxiliary worker, teacher, station attendant, and storekeeper.

In 1951, Astafiev’s first story, “Civilian Man,” was published in the Chusovskoy Rabochiy newspaper. Since 1951, he worked in the editorial office of this newspaper, writing reports, articles, and stories. His first book, “Until Next Spring,” was published in Molotov in 1953.

In 1958, Astafiev was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1959-1961 he studied at the Higher Literary Courses in Moscow.

From 1989 to 1991, Astafiev was a People's Deputy of the USSR.

In 1993 he signed the “Letter of the 42”.

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