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Vasiliy Ivanovich Belov
Василий Белов
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23 October 1932 - 4 December 2012
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Vasily Ivanovich Belov (23 October 1932 – 4 December 2012) was born in the Vologda region. Belov graduated from the seven-year school in the village of Timonikha, continued his studies in the FZO in the city of Sokol. The young man began his career as a carpenter, then became a motorist, dieselist. After serving in the army, in the late 50s Belov began to work in the regional Vologda newspaper. In 1956 he first appeared as a poet in the magazine “Star”. In the same year he joined the CPSU. The undoubted
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Vasily Ivanovich Belov (23 October 1932 – 4 December 2012) was born in the Vologda region. Belov graduated from the seven-year school in the village of Timonikha, continued his studies in the FZO in the city of Sokol. The young man began his career as a carpenter, then became a motorist, dieselist.
After serving in the army, in the late 50s Belov began to work in the regional Vologda newspaper. In 1956 he first appeared as a poet in the magazine “Star”. In the same year he joined the CPSU. The undoubted talent of the young man leads him to the Gorky Literary Institute, where he studied from 1959 to 1964.
In 1961, Belov's first book was published - a collection of poems "My Forest Village". In the same year, the author debuted in print with his prose work, the story “The village of Berdyaevka”. In the 60s, a number of Belov’s works were published: short stories “On Rostan Hill”, “Spring”, “Behind the Three Voloks”.
A bright example of Russian “village prose”, which brought the author wide popularity and opened the way to the central press, was the story “Ordinary business”, written in 1966. In 1968 in the magazine "New World" published the story "Carpenter's stories", and in 1969 - the story "Bukhtin Vologda". After the first "Bukhtin ..." in 1996, a sequel was published.
Belov’s work is now one of the most debated. The amplitude of the scope of assessments of the writer's works - from stunned enthusiasm to furious denial. All his works are permeated with sorrow and pain about the collapse of traditional peasant Russia, about the rigidity of the consciousness of rural residents, the devastation and desolation of Russian villages.
In the 70s, Belov completes the prose cycle "Education by Dr. Spock".
In 1979 - 1981 appeared "Lad" - the book "Essays on folk aesthetics". The problem of "true" and "imaginary" is actualized in the novel "Everything is ahead". The action-packed novel “Eves” (chronicle of the late 20s) and its sequels “The Year of the Great Change” and “The Sixth Hour” (chronicle of 1932) tell the truth about collectivization.
V. I. Belov laureate of the State Prize of the USSR.