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Andrey Alekseevich Usachev
Андрей Усачев
Birth at
5 July 1958
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Andrei Usachev was born on July 5, 1958 in Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, but after the fourth year he moved to the philological faculty of Tver State University. Before becoming a professional writer, he changed many jobs and positions: he was a janitor, guard, security guard, musician in a restaurant, editor of the magazine Merry Pictures. Published since 1985. In 1990, his collection of poems “If you throw a stone up” was awarded the first prize at the All-Russian
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Andrei Usachev was born on July 5, 1958 in Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, but after the fourth year he moved to the philological faculty of Tver State University. Before becoming a professional writer, he changed many jobs and positions: he was a janitor, guard, security guard, musician in a restaurant, editor of the magazine Merry Pictures.
Published since 1985. In 1990, his collection of poems “If you throw a stone up” was awarded the first prize at the All-Russian competition of young writers for children. The following year he became a member of the Writers’ Union. Quite quickly Usachev became one of the most popular authors in the domestic children's literature. Among his books are poetic "Dreams of Petushkov" (1994), "The Magic ABC" (1996), "We Played the Papal Engine" (1998), "Fairy Tales" (1998), "The Box" (1999), "Planet of Cats" (1999), "The Rumble Song" (2003), "Curious Varvara" (2003), "The Bug Walked Down the Street" (2003), as well as collections of fairy tales and fantastic stories for children "Flum-pam" (1992), "Smart Dog Sonya" (1996), "The Big Floattle" (2003), or "The Big Smoking" (2003).
In total, more than 100 books of the writer were published in Russia. Some of his works have been translated into Hebrew, Ukrainian, Moldovan, Polish and Serbian. His "Fundamentals of Life Safety" grade 1,2,3-4, "Declaration of Human Rights", "My Geographical Discoveries" were recommended for study in schools by the Ministry of Education of Russia.
In addition to poetry and prose, Andrei Usachev also writes plays for puppet theater and songs. He worked a lot in television - wrote scripts and songs for the program "Quariete Merry Quampania" and for the multi-part feature film "Dracosha and Company". For several years he led children's radio programs "Fun Radio Quampania" and "Flying Sofa". According to his scripts, a number of animated films were staged, including “Smart Dog Sonya” (1991, dir. Vadim Medzhibovsky), “The Bigelow Girl or a Chewing Story” (1995, dir. Elvira Avakyan), “The Knight’s Novel” (2003, dir. Elvira Avakyan), “The Girl and the Mole” (2005, dir. Tatiana Ilyina) and “Menu” (2007, dir. Aida Zyablikova). In 2005, as a writer of children's songs, he was awarded the "Golden Ostap" award, and the book of 333 cats created by him together with the artist Viktor Chizhikov won the nomination "Together with the book we grow" at the "Book of the Year" contest. The following year he won the international competition "Peter and the Wolf-2006" for the best work for children.