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Uz Aleshkovskiy
Юз Алешковский
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21 September 1929 - 21 March 2022
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Joseph Efimovich Aleshkovsky, known as Yuz Aleshkovsky, was born in Krasnoyarsk in 1929. Soon the family moved to Moscow, where Joseph went to school. As the writer himself admits, he never finished school - first he listened to five classes, then spent three years in a row in the seventh. Externom listened to the tenth grade, but before the final exams it never came. The Aleshkovsky family spent years of war in Omsk in evacuation. In 1947, Joseph was drafted into the army. The rebellious nature
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Joseph Efimovich Aleshkovsky, known as Yuz Aleshkovsky, was born in Krasnoyarsk in 1929. Soon the family moved to Moscow, where Joseph went to school. As the writer himself admits, he never finished school - first he listened to five classes, then spent three years in a row in the seventh. Externom listened to the tenth grade, but before the final exams it never came.
The Aleshkovsky family spent years of war in Omsk in evacuation. In 1947, Joseph was drafted into the army. The rebellious nature in the navy played a cruel joke with Aleshkovsky - he was imprisoned for four years for violation of discipline. Released under an amnesty in the mid-50s and having had time to work as a chauffeur on virgin land, Aleshkovsky returns to Moscow, where he decides to earn a living by literature.
In parallel with writing, Aleshkovsky works as a driver in the emergency service. The unstressed work schedule left a lot of free time for reading, fascination with philosophy and writing children's stories.
By that time, Aleshkovsky already had a good supply of written poems, among which there were many love lyrics, as well as songs that he began to write in the camp. By the end of the 50s, Aleshkovsky published several of his works, and also took part in work on several television and film scripts.
In Soviet times, Yuz Aleshkovsky was also known as the author of samizdat, since many of his works due to the satire on power present in them, profanity and details of camp life simply could not be officially published. In the 70s, one of his famous novels “Kangaroo” and “Nikolai Nikolaich” were written. His songs were performed everywhere, and in 1995 he recorded an album with Andrey Makarevich “Kims”. The main theme present in almost all songs and in many works of Aleshkovsky is the theme of camps and zones.
In 1979 Aleshkovsky emigrated to the United States. The impetus for this was the publication of his poems in the banned almanac “Metropol”. While abroad, Aleshkovsky published his books “Hand”, “Cloak”, “Carousel” and others.
Yuz Aleshkovsky continues to live in the United States to this day. As he himself admits, he considers himself to be a happy person who has lived a successful life.