Текст песни Виктор Астафьев - Прокляты и убиты 01

Author Biography
Ovsyanka is the writer’s native village (in the distance, between the highway and the Yenisei River)
Victor Astafyev was born on May 1, 1924 in the village of Ovsyanka (Krasnoyarsk Territory) in the family of Lydia Ilyinichna Potylitsyna and Pyotr 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 Astafiev ends up in prison with the wording “wrecking”. During Lydia’s next trip to her husband, the boat in which she was floating among others turned over. Lydia Potylitsin, falling into the water, caught a 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 Potylitsyn. Victor Astafyev spoke about the childhood spent with grandmother Katerina Petrovna and leaving bright memories in the writer’s soul in the first part of the autobiography “The Last Bow”.
Having come out of conclusion, the father of the future writer married a second time. Having decided to go for "northern wild money", Peter Astafyev with his wife and two sons - Victor and newborn Nikolai - goes to Igarka, where they sent the dispossessed family of his father - Pavel Astafyev. In the summer of the following year, Victor’s father concluded an agreement with the Igarsky fish factory and took his son for fishing in the town between the villages of Karasino and Pole. After the end of Putin, having returned to Igarka, Peter Astafyev was hospitalized. Abandoned by his stepmother and family, Victor was on the street. For several months he lived in an abandoned building of a hairdresser, but after a serious incident at the 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 army. He was a driver, artillery reconnaissance, signalman. Until the end of the war, Victor Astafyev remained a simple soldier.
In 1943 he was awarded the medal "For Courage", for the fact that:
“In the battle of 10/20/43, the Red Armyman Astafyev V.P. four times corrected telephone communications with advanced NP. When performing the task, from a close bomb explosion, it was bombarded with earth. Burning with hatred of the enemy, comrade Astafyev continued to carry out the task under artillery and mortar fire, collected scraps of cable and re-restored telephone communications, ensuring uninterrupted communication with the infantry and its support by artillery fire.
After demobilization in 1945, he left for the Urals, in the city of Chusovoy, Molotov Region (now Perm Territory).
In 1945, Astafiev married Maria Semenovna Koryakina. They had three children: daughters Lydia (born and died in 1947) and Irina (1948-1987) and son Andrei (born in 1950).
In Chusovoy, Astafyev worked as a locksmith, an auxiliary worker, a teacher, a station attendant, and a storekeeper.
In 1951, the first story by Astafyev, “Civilian Man,” was published in the newspaper Chusovskoy Rabochiy. Since 1951, he worked in the editorial office of this newspaper, wrote 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 42's”.
He died on November 29, 2001 in Krasnoyarsk. He was buried in Ovsyanka.