Historically, the Ukrainian people have always been creative, loved to sing and dance, invent poems and songs, myths and legends. Therefore, for many centuries, truly great and talented people have worked in all corners of Ukraine.

Ukrainian literature is phenomenal and unusual in its essence. Famous Ukrainian writers described each historical stage metaphorically and topically. That's why they look at us through the lines of yellowed sheets of paper. real characters. And we, delving deeper into the narrative, begin to understand what worries the author, inspires, frightens and encourages. It is quite possible to learn history from the masterpieces of Ukrainian literature - events are described so truthfully and sometimes painfully.

Who are all these geniuses of the pen who penetrate the soul with words and make us laugh and cry with them? What are their names and what did they do? How did they achieve success and did they find it at all? Or maybe they never learned that their creations brought them eternal fame and veneration, forever inscribing their name in the classics of Ukrainian literature?

Unfortunately, not all Ukrainian writers were able to enter the world literary arena. Many masterpieces have never been in the hands of the Germans, Americans, or British. Hundreds of wonderful books did not receive their well-deserved prizes in literary competitions in France or Germany. But they are really worth reading and understanding.

And although hundreds of talented people have written on the “nightingale language,” perhaps it’s worth starting with a unique and phenomenal woman. This brilliant poetess, whose lines express a storm of emotions, and whose poems remain deep in the heart. And her name is Lesya Ukrainka.

Larisa Petrovna Kosach-Kvitka

Lesya, being a weak and small woman, showed incredible fortitude and courage, becoming an example to be followed by millions of people. The poetess was born in 1871 into the noble family of the famous writer O. Pchilka. At birth, the girl was given the name Larisa, and her real name there was Kosach-Kvitka.

Since childhood, suffering from a terrible disease - bone tuberculosis - Lesya Ukrainka was bedridden almost all the time. Lived in the South. Beneficial influence mothers and passion for books (especially the master of Ukrainian literature - Taras Shevchenko) bore fruit.

From a young age, the girl began to create and publish in various newspapers. Like many famous Ukrainian writers, in her works Larisa adhered to the sentiments and traditions of T. G. Shevchenko, creating several cycles of lyrical and philosophical poems.

About Lesya's work

Intrigued by magical mythology and world history Lesya has devoted many books to this topic. Most of all she liked novels about Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, about humanism and human qualities, about the fight against despotism and evil, as well as mystical stories about the undead and nature of Western Ukraine.

It should be noted that Lesya Ukrainka was a polyglot and knew more than ten languages. This gave her the opportunity to make high-quality literary translations of the works of Hugo, Shakespeare, Byron, Homer, Heine and Mickiewicz.

The most famous works that everyone is recommended to read are “The Forest Song”, “Possessed”, “Cassandra”, “The Stone Lord” and “Songs about Freedom”.

Marko Vovchok

Among famous writers Ukraine was another extraordinary woman. Many called her the Ukrainian George Sand - just as her patron Panteleimon Kulish dreamed. It was he who became her first assistant and editor, giving her the first impetus to develop her potential.

Woman with a fiery heart

Marko Vovchok was a fatal woman. As a child, her mother sent her to a private boarding school, away from her father’s bad influence, then to Orel to live with a rich aunt. There the endless love cycles began. Marko Vovchok - Maria Vilinskaya - was very beautiful girl, so it’s not surprising that crowds of gentlemen revolved around her all her life.

Among these gentlemen were famous writers, whose names are familiar to us. Even though she tied the knot (as she later admitted, not for love) with Opanas Markovich, her husband could not do anything with the attractive energy of this young lady. Turgenev, Kostomarov and Taras Shevchenko fell at her feet. And everyone wanted to become her teacher and patron.

"Marusya"

The most famous work Marco Vovchok presents the story “Marusya” about a girl who gave her life to help the Cossacks. The creation impressed readers and critics so much that Maria was awarded an honorary award from the French Academy.

Men in Ukrainian literature

The creativity of Ukrainian writers was also under the auspices of talented men. One of them was Pavel Gubenko. Readers know him under the pseudonym Ostap Cherry. His satirical works made readers laugh more than once. Unfortunately, this man, who smiles at us from newspaper pages and literature textbooks, had few reasons for joy in his life.

Pavel Gubenko

Being a political prisoner, Pavel Gubenko honestly served his required 10 years in a forced labor camp. He did not abandon creativity, and when his stern superiors instructed him to write a series of stories from the lives of prisoners, even there he could not resist irony!

The writer's life path

But life put everything in its place. The one who previously accused Ostap Vishnya himself ended up in the dock and became an “enemy of the people.” And the Ukrainian author returned home ten years later and continued doing what he loved.

But these long years in correctional camps left a terrible imprint on Pavel Gubenko’s condition. Even after the war, returning to the already free Kyiv, he still could not forget the terrible episodes. Most likely, the endless inner struggles of a man who always smiled and never cried led to his tragic death from a heart attack at the age of 66.

Ivan Drach

A short excursion into the work of Ukrainian writers ends with Ivan Drach. Many modern authors still turn to this master of (self-)irony, witty words and humor for advice.

Life story of a genius

Mine creative path Ivan Fedorovich Drach began, while still a seventh grader, with a poem eagerly published in a local newspaper. As soon as the writer has finished high school, began teaching Russian language and literature in rural school. After the army, Ivan enters the philological department Kyiv University, who never graduated. And all because a talented student will be offered a job in a newspaper, and then, after the course, the writer will receive the specialty of film playwright in Moscow. Returning to Kyiv, Ivan Fedorovich Drach begins working at the famous film studio named after A. Dovzhenko.

For more than 30 years creative activity From the pen of Ivan Drach came a huge number of collections of poems, translations, articles and even film stories. His works have been translated and published in dozens of countries and appreciated throughout the world.

The eventful life tempered the writer’s character, fostered in him an active civil position and a peculiar temperament. The works of Ivan Fedorovich express the sentiments of the sixties and children of war, thirsting for change and praising the achievements of human thought.

What's better to read?

It is better to start getting acquainted with the work of Ivan Drach with the poem “Pero”. It is this that is the credo of life and conveys the leitmotifs that permeate the entire work of the brilliant poet and writer.

These famous Ukrainian writers made an invaluable contribution to the domestic and world literature. Decades later, their works convey to us current thoughts, teach and help in various life situations. The work of Ukrainian writers has enormous literary and moral value, is perfect for teenagers and adults and will bring pleasure from reading.

Each of the Ukrainian authors is unique in their own way, and their unusual individual style will help you recognize your favorite writer from the first lines. Such a writer’s “flower garden” makes Ukrainian literature truly extraordinary, rich and interesting.

Vladimir Zaitsev
MY FATHERLAND IS DONBASS!

The nightingales sang over the Donbass,
The winds smelled of wormwood.
As an eternal explanation of love
To your steppes, spacious and epic.

Donbass is my Fatherland, Donbass!
The centuries have tested your strength!
You have shown your power more than once
The warmth of coal, the elastic shine of steel!

There are many beauties in other lands,
But this region is dearer to us than all of them!
We are from Donbass, we are such a people
Who will master everything and can do everything!

Donbass! My Fatherland is Donbass!
Mighty land of my native state!
For centuries this layer will not become scarce
Workers' Honor, Courage and Glory!

“My Donetsk region, my life...My heart.”

in poems by fellow countrymen poets.

A great sense of patriotism begins with love for one’s land, one’s city. By studying the past of their region, creating museums and exhibitions, local historians enrich and preserve national traditions. This work fosters love for the native land, forms in the younger generation a sense of pride that our region is rich in important historical figures, and most importantly, hard-working and talented people.

A reading competition dedicated to the poets of the Donetsk region was held in Amvrosievskaya school No. 4 as part of the month patriotic education. Under the guidance of literature teachers Sobchuk L.A., Serdyuk L.I., Shirokolav V.G. students in grades 6-9 prepared excerpts from prose works and poems by Donbass poets.

Merciless, Kostyrya, Rybalko, Plyatskovsky, Gorbatov, Shutov...

And how many brilliant lines were signed by these names! Where did these terms come from and where do they go, leaving a mark on our souls? This is a great mystery, which, however, no one wants to solve - it’s just that some want to write poetry and prose, while others want to read them and find a response to their feelings in them.

Author of the famous lines “No one brought Donbass to its knees and no one can bring it to its knees” Pavel Ivanov (Merciless- a pseudonym, which later became a surname, - very harshly branded the bourgeoisie in his poems) was born in the Smolensk province. Then the family moved to our region. He published the collections “Stone Book”, “Mountain Flame”, “Cranes Are Flying Over the Mine”, “Miner Poems”, “Donetsk Expanses”... He helped a lot - both with advice and deeds - to aspiring writers. Streets in Gorlovka and Donetsk are named after the famous fellow countryman.

Yenakievets Mikhail Plyatskovsky At one time he worked in the local factory circulation “For Metal”. Described beauty native land, romanticized the work of the steel plant. And even then, the author of the future hits “Lada”, “The Roof of Your House”, “Mother’s Eyes”, “After Two Winters”, tried to hum his poems. Then he left to conquer Moscow. And he conquered the entire Union.

Ivan Sergeevich Kostyrya He created his main works on Donetsk soil. For eight years he worked as a doctor in Gorlovka - first as a pediatrician, then as a child psychiatrist. Finally, I plunged headlong into creativity. He gave us “The Tale of the Solar Brothers”, “How the animals gained intelligence.” And, of course, “Thoughts about Donbass”, where legends and miners’ tales were intricately intertwined, real facts. It was Kostyrya who initiated the letter to scientists, the result of which was the assignment of the name Donbass to the small planet No. 19916, discovered in 1976.

Poet and prose writer, defender of Leningrad from the occupiers, and our heroes from oblivion, honorary citizen of Donetsk. All this - Victor Shutov. He left us a rich legacy: collections of poetry, novels, books for children, stories, essays about Donetsk. And, of course, songs about our region - “Miner Lyrical”, “City of Blue Waste Heaps”, “Beloved Donbass”, “Saur-Mogila”. Thanks to his tenacity, fighting spirit, and thirst for justice, the books “Looking Death in the Face”, “Ordinary Underground” and others appeared, revealing the truth about the activities of the Donetsk underground fighters during the years of occupation. A street in Donetsk and also a literary prize are named after Shutov.

A front-line soldier who received three Orders of the Red Star and lost his sight after being wounded in February 1945 at the Oder bridgehead - Nikolay Rybalko. Since the 50s, he published 25 collections of poetry, becoming in 1968 the laureate of the Republican Komsomol Prize named after. Nikolai Ostrovsky (for “The Road to Heights”), and in 1985 - laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after. Shevchenko (for the book “The Never-Settling Star”). The title of one of the collections - “Through the Eyes of the Heart” - explains why Nikolai Alexandrovich’s poetry was so popular (letters came to him from all over the USSR). Alexander Bilash’s song based on Rybalko’s verses “I lived in such times” became a laureate of the all-Union television competition “Song-75”

We also have creators parallel realities and other worlds. Donetsk Fedor Berezin, who served as a missile officer in Kazakhstan and then in the Far East, having retired to the reserve with the rank of captain, returned to his hometown. He was an entrepreneur, a miner. And 15 years ago I took up writing. No joke - in 2001 he founded the club of fantasy lovers “Strannik” in the capital of the region, and also took first place in international festival science fiction "Star Bridge" in the category "Best Debut" (for the novel "Ashes"). Berezin defines his genre as “fantasy-philosophical techno-thriller.” His books are published by Moscow publishing houses.

1st place Elizaveta Tkachenko, 8th grade,

2nd place Andrey Zhitenko, 9th grade, Elizaveta Savich, 8th grade

3rd place Safoshkin Konstantin 6th grade, Daria Tyutyunnikova 8th grade, Alexander Krivokosenko 7th grade

Father's land, native side, land called Donbass, from the deepest depths of my heart I extract the most intimate words of declaration of love for you. But no matter what magical power the word has possessed since the ancient Old Testament biblical times, no matter what colors, sounds and energy it carries within itself throughout many, many millennia of human history, I am afraid that it is still not capable of fully expressing all the penetration of filial feeling . After all, the image of Donbass is so many-sided, multidimensional and multicolored, so majestic that it is indeed not easy to pay tribute to it in ordinary words.

To my father - Donbass

Merciless P.

You are my noisy

You are my smoky one

I compose hymns for you.

You are my space

Open to me

You are my most famous.

You chop coal

You're cooking steel,

You are my devoted comrade.

Couples on the right

On the left are couples

The headlights shine along the longitudinal direction.

You are my brave one

You are my brave one

You took the fascist by the gills:

He won't shout

He won't make a sound

He will lose the habit of robberies!

You are my friend

You are my smoky one

I compose hymns for you.

You are my space

Open to me

You are my famous father.

Shutov V.

Not beyond the seas and oceans -

In front of me is my globe,

From his fate by meridians,

With his working breadth.

My globe is a small planet,

Father's land - native Donbass

With his deeds unprecedented,

With his life - not for show.

In harmony with universal laws,

Without disturbing the course of the planets,

My land, rising in waste heaps,

It takes warmth and light from the depths.

Live and work in Donetsk beautiful people, with their joys and problems - great workers and incorrigible dreamers. There is a special feature in Donetsk characters that cannot be ignored. This is durability, like that of first-class steel, which neither bends nor cracks. Only on Donetsk soil were they able to strengthen their character and reveal the full power of their talent, the world-famous “golden voice” of Ukraine Anatoly Solovyanenko, the “bird man” Sergei Bubka and the holder of the title “Dancer of the World” Vadim Pisarev. The Donetsk region has become the homeland for many prominent figures in culture, sports, and medicine. Among them: great composer Sergei Prokofiev, artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, polar explorer Georgy Sedov, founder of Russian cinema Alexander Khanzhonkov, poets Vasily Stus and Vladimir Sosyura, writers P. Baidebur and I. Kostyrya, oncologist Grigory Bondar and many other equally outstanding people. Famous Donetsk residents have glorified and continue to glorify not only our city, but the whole of Ukraine!

Sergei Bubka (born 1963)

This name is written in golden letters in the history of athletics. After all, it was Sergei Bubka - the “bird man” - who set the world record in pole vaulting. He was the first athlete to jump higher than 6 meters, and also the only athlete to hold both world records for indoor and outdoor jumping. Sergei Bubka received the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, became a champion Olympic Games, European champion, two-time USSR champion, six-time world champion, as well as winner of the World and European Cups in pole vaulting. In total, Sergei set 35 world records! Sergei Bubka was born in Lugansk, but serious training began for him in Donetsk, where at that time there were the best gyms and trainers.
Today in Donetsk there is a “Sergei Bubka Club”, which annually holds international competitions “Pole Stars”, and near the regional sports complex “Olympic” there is a monument to the famous pole athlete.

Liliya Podkopaeva (born 1978)

Answering questions from the media, who do you consider the pride of your city, 33% of Donetsk residents surveyed named athlete Sergei Bubka, 25% - businessman Rinat Akhmetov, Olympic champion Liliya Podkopaeva and the President of Ukraine received 13% of votes each.
Thanks to her talent and exceptional hard work, L. Podkopaeva became the owner of 45 gold, 21 silver and 14 bronze medals at international competitions alone, not counting national championships. 1995 - absolute champion world (Japan, Sabae), winner of the European Cup. 1996 - absolute European champion (Great Britain, Birmingham). 1996 - absolute champion of the Olympic Games (USA, Atlanta).
Liliya Podkopaeva's signature element - "Double forward somersault with a 180 degree turn" - has not yet been repeated by anyone in the world.

Grigory Bondar (born in 1932).

Grigory Vasilyevich Bondar is one of the most talented practitioners and theorists of surgery and oncology in the world. Bondar published more than 700 scientific works, created more than 70 inventions in the field of medicine. He researches universal methods of surgical interventions for oncology. Today Grigory Vasilyevich heads the oncology department, which he organized. logy, performs more than 500 operations annually, is the General Directorm Donetsk Regional Antitumor Center, constantly conducts diagnostics, conducts active scientific and social activities. Among his awards are the title of Hero of Ukraine, Orders of Merit I and II degrees, State Prize Ukraine in the field of science and technology, the title of Honored Scientist of Ukraine, the Honorary Badge of the President of Ukraine and the Diploma of the European Parliament from Brussels. Truly, a person's life can be extremely useful and productive if it is accompanied by natural talent, determination and exceptional hard work.

Vitaly Starukhin (1949-2000)

Vitaly Starukhin is a favorite of football fans, a legend of Ukrainian football, one of the best forwards of Shakhtar Donetsk. Vitaly is a man with an unusual biography. He started playing football relatively late, but once on the big field, he made a rapid career. Vitaly played for the Stroitel club in Poltava, from where he was literally kidnapped by FC Shakhtar, and although the USSR Football Federation banned Starukhin from playing for the Donetsk club, he continued to perform under different names.
Starukhin's legendary achievement - 26 goals scoredduring the USSR Championship. The Ukrainian forward was recognized as footballer of the year. At 35 years old, StarKhin was forced to end his career as a football player - Shakhtar refused his services in favor of younger athletes. Then Starukhin continued to work as a coach, inspector and participated in veterans' matches, where he scored goals no worse than when he was at the zenith of his glory.
In 2010, the society of waste heap specialists assigned the name of Vitaly Starukhin to one of the heaps of Donetsk near the Shakhtar stadium, and the Star of Vitaly Starukhin was installed on the Shakhtar Walk of Fame near the Donbass Arena.

Leonid Bykov (1928-1979)

We all remember Petya Mokin from "Tiger Tamer", unrequitedly in love with his childhood friend Lenochka Vorontsova and Maxim Perepelitsa - a good-for-nothing but kind and cheerful guy, and, of course, submariner Alyosha Akishin from the film "Volunteers". In each Leonid Bykov created a unique image in the film, but the Maestro from the film “Only Old Men Go to Battle” will remain in our memory forever.
Director, screenwriter and actor - all this is LeonId Bykov, a favorite of millions of viewers. Few people know that Leonid Fedorovich Bykov is a native of the village of Znamenskoye Donetsk region. Leonid Fedorovich is not only an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, but also a People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. His roles and extraordinary directorial works left a bright mark on the history of Russian cinema.

Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

Nikita Khrushchev is one of the few politicians whose name was heard throughout the world. Khrushchev’s fate was connected with Donbass for 20 years - Nikita Sergeevich began his career in Donetsk. Khrushchev's political figure is quite controversial. His most famous achievements- debunking the cult of Stalin and rehabilitation of political prisoners of the USSR, abolition of sectoral ministries, support for the space program and Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space, construction of the Berlinth walls, the anti-religious campaign and the legalization of abortion. The most famous expressions of Nikita Khrushchev are “Politicians are all the same: they promise to build a bridge where there are no rivers”, “We will show you Kuzka’s mother!”, “When a person eats, he becomes kinder” and many others.
In Donetsk, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of DonNTU with the inscription that N.S. studied here. Khrushchev.

Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842-1910)

A.I. Kuindzhi is a brilliant landscape painter. Born in the town of Karasu near Mariupol, he lost his parents early and lived in great poverty. WITH early years He was fond of painting, drawing on any suitable material - on walls, fences and scraps of paper. As a mature artist, he especially loved to paint landscapes of Ukrainian nature. This is a sensationWe became Kuindzhi’s paintings - “Birch Grove” (1879), the legendary “ moonlit night on the Dnieper" (1880), "Dnieper in the morning" (1881). These paintings played a colossal role in the development of Russian landscape painting, and not only in p landscape In them, Kuindzhi showed people again what they had forgotten since the times of the ancient Russian masters - Kuindzhi showed people color and paint.
Arkhip Kuindzhi had his share of great fame and oblivion, widespread popularity and misunderstanding, but he always remained modest and very kind person. His students were later outstanding artists, Ilya Repin and Nikolai Roerich.

The day before world day writers, which is celebrated on March 3, we propose to remember the most famous names of these creators who were born in our region or lived here for some time and created famous works.

Legendary Merciless

The author of the famous lines “No one brought Donbass to its knees and no one can bring it to its knees” Pavel Ivanov (Besposhchadny - a pseudonym that later became a surname - very harshly branded the bourgeoisie in his poems) was born in the Smolensk province. Then the family moved to our region. He published the collections “Stone Book”, “Mountain Flame”, “Cranes Are Flying Over the Mine”, “Miner Poems”, “Donetsk Expanses”... He helped a lot - both with advice and deeds - to aspiring writers. In May it will be 45 years since the death of this bright man, after whom streets in Gorlovka and Donetsk are named.

Song Plyatskovsky

Yenakievite Mikhail Plyatskovsky at one time worked in the local factory circulation “For Metal”. He described the beauty of his native land, romanticized the work of the metallurgical plant. And even then, according to the former chairman of Donetsk regional organization National Union of Writers of Ukraine Stanislav Zhukovsky, who was friends with the author of future hits “Lada”, “The Roof of Your House”, “Mother’s Eyes”, “After Two Winters”, tried to hum his poems. Then he left to conquer Moscow. And he conquered the entire Union.

Fabulous Kostyrya

Ivan Sergeevich was born in the Dnepropetrovsk region, and began writing in Kyiv while studying at a medical institute. But he created his main works on Donetsk soil. For eight years he worked as a doctor in Gorlovka - first as a pediatrician, then as a child psychiatrist. Finally, I plunged headlong into creativity. He gave us “The Tale of the Solar Brothers”, “How the animals gained intelligence.” And, of course, “Thoughts about Donbass,” where legends, miners’ tales, and real facts were intricately intertwined. It was Kostyrya who initiated the letter to scientists, the result of which was the assignment of the name Donbass to the small planet No. 19916, discovered in 1976.

Medical Grossman

Few people know, but the creator of the great novel “Life and Fate,” who was born in the Zhytomyr region, also came into contact with the mining region. From 1929 to 1932, Vasily Semyonovich lived in Donetsk. He worked as an assistant chemist at the regional Institute of Pathology and Occupational Hygiene, and was also an assistant at the Department of General Chemistry at the Medical Institute. Two years after leaving for Moscow, Grossman published a story about the life of miners and factory intelligentsia - “Gluckauf”. It was published in the newspaper Literary Donbass with the support of Maxim Gorky.

Historic Le

A classic of the Ukrainian historical novel (“Nalivaiko”, “Bogdan Khmelnytsky”) Ivan Le (in fact, his last name is Moysya - from his native village of Moisentsy, in the Cherkassy region) came to Artyomovsk in 1929 already as a venerable writer. He was 35 at that time, collections of stories had been published, and “The Intermountain Novel” was being written. But even in our region, where Le edited the magazine “Slaughter” for two years, he found room for creativity. About the Donbass, his “Rhythms of a Miner”, “Integral” (in this story he gives, as it were, his own version of the ending of “Moloch”, transferring the action, and with it some of Kuprin’s heroes, to the years of the first five-year plan), “Two days in Novokramatorsk”. ..

Fair Jester

Poet and prose writer, defender of Leningrad from the occupiers, and our heroes from oblivion, honorary citizen of Donetsk. All this is Viktor Shutov. He left us a rich legacy: collections of poetry, novels, books for children, stories, essays about Donetsk. And, of course, songs about our region - “Miner’s Lyrical”, “City of Blue Waste Heaps”, “Beloved Donbass”, “Saur-Mogila”. Thanks to his tenacity, fighting spirit, and thirst for justice, the books “Looking Death in the Face”, “Ordinary Underground” and others appeared, revealing the truth about the activities of the Donetsk underground fighters during the years of occupation. A street in the regional center, as well as a literary prize, are named after Shutov.

Heart Rybalko

The front-line soldier, who received three Orders of the Red Star and lost his sight after being wounded in February 1945 at the Oder bridgehead, glorified Kramatorsk, of which he became an honorary resident. Since the 50s, he published 25 collections of poetry, becoming in 1968 the laureate of the Republican Komsomol Prize named after. Nikolai Ostrovsky (for “The Road to Heights”), and in 1985 - laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after. Shevchenko (for the book “The Never-Settling Star”). The title of one of the collections - “Through the Eyes of the Heart” - explains why Nikolai Alexandrovich’s poetry was so popular (letters came to him from all over the USSR). Alexander Bilash’s song based on Rybalko’s verses “I lived in such times” became a laureate of the all-Union television competition “Song-75”.

Unbending Stus

The famous dissident, who posthumously became a Hero of Ukraine, spent his school and student years in our region. He taught for some time in Gorlovka, and in 1963 he worked for our newspaper as a literary editor for seven months. In the mining region, Vasily Semyonovich began to write. So much so that the famous modern writer Oksana Zabuzhko, reading his poem “Bald Mountain” during a visit to Donetsk, called it “a lyrical map of Donbass given by Stus, where the howling of the Donetsk winds can be heard in the very phonetics.” It was the Donetsk region, according to Oksana Stefanovna, that shaped his personality. Recently in the regional scientific library them. Krupskaya opened the literary museum of Vasily Stus, the main part of which migrated from Gorlovka.

Exciting Sosyura

A native of Debaltsevo began as an agronomist. Drank miner's labor, civil war(and fought first on the side of the UPR, then for the Red Army), during the Great Patriotic War he was a war correspondent, in 1951 he became the object of persecution after an article in the newspaper Pravda, which accused him of “bourgeois nationalism” for the famous poem "Love Ukraine." The authorities either favored the poet (the revolutionary romantic poem “Chervona Winter”, written in 1922, brought him fame), then dropped him to the very top... Exciting, like his life, Sosyura, who created a huge amount of intimate love lyrics, became a laureate of the Stalin Prize, and was awarded two Orders of Lenin.

Artyomovsky Gorbatov

Co-author of scripts for the television films “It Happened in Donbass”, “The Unconquered” and “Donetsk Miners”, one of the founders of the association of proletarian writers of Donbass “Slaughter”, father of the famous novel “Donbass” - comes from the Lugansk region. He spent most of his life in Moscow, where he was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. But he also spent a lot of time in our region, namely in Artyomovsk (then Bakhmut). Here Boris Leontievich graduated from school, found his calling, and began to publish. At the age of 14, he was already a workers' correspondent for the provincial "Stoker". For some time he worked as a metal planer at the Kramatorsk plant, and then plunged headlong into journalism. Gorbatov created his first stories and novel (“Our City”) on Donetsk soil.

Filmed by Rozdobudko

This Donetsk woman is now among the top 10 most published Ukrainian writers. Winner of three national competitions“Coronation of the Word”, winner of the international literary prize named after. Prince Yuri Dolgorukov. Based on the works of our countrywoman, full-length films and TV series “Button”, “Autumn Flowers”, “Mysterious Island”, “Trap” were shot. As she admitted to Donbass, her childhood memories associated with life in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk were reflected in the novels “Yakbi” (“If ...”), “The Sixth Door”.

Fantastic Berezin

We also have creators of parallel realities and other worlds. Donetsk resident Fyodor Berezin, who served as a missile officer in Kazakhstan and then in the Far East, retired to the reserve with the rank of captain and returned to his hometown. He was an entrepreneur, a miner. And 15 years ago I took up writing. Yes, no joke - in 2001, he founded the “Wanderer” club of fantasy lovers in the capital of the region, and also took first place at the international science fiction festival “Star Bridge” in the category “Best Debut” (for the novel “Ashes”). Berezin defines his genre as “fantasy-philosophical techno-thriller.” His books are published by Moscow publishing houses.

The talents are endless!

Among those who glorified our region was the author of the trilogy “The Tale of a Harsh Friend”, “The Fate of Ilyusha Barabanov” and “Red Sabers”, as well as many short stories, tales and essays dedicated to our region (“Lights of Donbass”, “Miners’ Tales” ", "Battle on the Kalmius River") Leonid Zharikov; Pavel Baidebura, who raised the local writers' organization after the liberation of Donbass; magnificent lyricist Natalya Khatkina (since 2010, in memory of her, a literary competition); laureates of the USSR State Prize Sergei Borzenkov and Vladimir Popov; laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine - Leonid Talalay and Ivan Dzyuba. The poetic work of Anatoly Kravchenko was awarded the All-Ukrainian Prize named after. Ushakov and international named after. Vinnichenko. The latter was also received by the poet Vladimir Kalinichenko and the prose writer, long-term “helmsman” of the literary magazine “Donbass” Viktor Logachev. The head of the region's writers' organization, the author of humorous prose Pavel Kushch, is our only fellow countryman awarded the prize. Ostap Cherry. Donetsk resident Oleg Zavyazkin with the collection “Malyava. Poems about death and love" won the 2007 international competition"Russian Prize"

Prepared by Andrey Krivtsun.

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The legendary Merciless Author of the famous lines “Nobody brought Donbass to its knees and no one has the power to bring it to its knees” Pavel Ivanov (Merciless - a pseudonym that later became a surname - very harshly branded the bourgeoisie in his poems) was born in the Smolensk province. Then the family moved to our region. He published the collections “Stone Book”, “Mountain Flame”, “Cranes Are Flying Over the Mine”, “Miner Poems”, “Donetsk Expanses”... He helped a lot - both with advice and deeds - to aspiring writers. In May it will be 45 years since the death of this bright man, after whom streets in Gorlovka and Donetsk are named.

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Song Plyatskovsky Enakievets Mikhail Plyatskovsky at one time worked in the local factory circulation “For Metal”. He described the beauty of his native land, romanticized the work of the metallurgical plant. And even then, according to the former chairman of the Donetsk regional organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Stanislav Zhukovsky, who was friends with the author of the future hits “Lada”, “The Roof of Your House”, “Mother’s Eyes”, “After Two Winters”, tried to hum his poems. Then he left to conquer Moscow. And he conquered the entire Union.

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The fabulous Kostyrya Ivan Sergeevich was born in the Dnepropetrovsk region, and began writing in Kyiv while studying at a medical institute. But he created his main works on Donetsk soil. For eight years he worked as a doctor in Gorlovka - first as a pediatrician, then as a child psychiatrist. Finally, I plunged headlong into creativity. He gave us “The Tale of the Solar Brothers”, “How the animals gained intelligence.” And, of course, “Thoughts about Donbass,” where legends, miners’ tales, and real facts were intricately intertwined. It was Kostyrya who initiated the letter to scientists, the result of which was the assignment of the name Donbass to the small planet No. 19916, discovered in 1976.

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Medical Grossman Few people know, but the creator of the great novel “Life and Fate”, born in the Zhitomir region, also came into contact with the mining region. From 1929 to 1932, Vasily Semyonovich lived in Donetsk. He worked as an assistant chemist at the regional Institute of Pathology and Occupational Hygiene, and was also an assistant at the Department of General Chemistry at the Medical Institute. Two years after leaving for Moscow, Grossman published a story about the life of miners and factory intelligentsia - “Gluckauf”. It was published in the newspaper Literary Donbass with the support of Maxim Gorky.

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Historical Le Classic of the Ukrainian historical novel (“Nalivaiko”, “Bogdan Khmelnitsky”) Ivan Le (in fact, his last name is Moysya - from his native village of Moisentsy, in the Cherkassy region) came to Artyomovsk in 1929 already as a venerable writer. He was 35 at that time, collections of stories had been published, and “The Intermountain Novel” was being written. But even in our region, where Le edited the magazine “Slaughter” for two years, he found room for creativity. About the Donbass, his “Rhythms of a Miner”, “Integral” (in this story he gives, as it were, his own version of the ending of “Moloch”, transferring the action, and with it some of Kuprin’s heroes, to the years of the first five-year plan), “Two days in Novokramatorsk”. ..

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Just Shutov Poet and prose writer, defender of Leningrad from the occupiers, and our heroes from oblivion, honorary citizen of Donetsk. All this is Viktor Shutov. He left us a rich legacy: collections of poetry, novels, books for children, stories, essays about Donetsk. And, of course, songs about our region - “Miner’s Lyrical”, “City of Blue Waste Heaps”, “Beloved Donbass”, “Saur-Mogila”. Thanks to his tenacity, fighting spirit, and thirst for justice, the books “Looking Death in the Face”, “Ordinary Underground” and others appeared, revealing the truth about the activities of the Donetsk underground fighters during the years of occupation. A street in the regional center, as well as a literary prize, are named after Shutov.

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The warm-hearted Rybalko, a front-line soldier who received three Orders of the Red Star and lost his sight after being wounded in February 1945 at the Oder bridgehead, glorified Kramatorsk, of which he became an honorary resident. Since the 50s, he published 25 collections of poetry, becoming in 1968 the laureate of the Republican Komsomol Prize named after. Nikolai Ostrovsky (for “The Road to Heights”), and in 1985 - laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after. Shevchenko (for the book “The Never-Settling Star”). The title of one of the collections - “Through the Eyes of the Heart” - explains why Nikolai Alexandrovich’s poetry was so popular (letters came to him from all over the USSR). Alexander Bilash’s song based on Rybalko’s verses “I lived in such times” became a laureate of the all-Union television competition “Song-75”.

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Unbending Stus The famous dissident, who became posthumously a Hero of Ukraine, spent his school and student years in our region. He taught for some time in Gorlovka, and in 1963 he worked for our newspaper as a literary editor for seven months. In the mining region, Vasily Semyonovich began to write. So much so that the famous modern writer Oksana Zabuzhko, reading his poem “Bald Mountain” during a visit to Donetsk, called it “a lyrical map of Donbass given by Stus, where the howling of the Donetsk winds can be heard in the very phonetics.” It was the Donetsk region, according to Oksana Stefanovna, that shaped his personality. Recently at the regional scientific library named after. Krupskaya opened the literary museum of Vasily Stus, the main part of which migrated from Gorlovka.

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Exciting Sosyura A native of Debaltsevo began as an agronomist. He experienced mining work, the civil war (and fought first on the side of the UPR, then for the Red Army), during the Great Patriotic War he was a war correspondent, in 1951 he became the target of persecution after an article in the newspaper Pravda, which accused him of “ bourgeois nationalism" for the famous poem "Love Ukraine". The authorities either favored the poet (the revolutionary-romantic poem "Chervona Winter", written in 1922, brought him fame), then lowered him to the very top... Exciting, like his life, Sosyura, who created a huge amount of intimate love lyrics, became a laureate of the Stalin Prize, was awarded two Orders of Lenin.

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Artyomovsky Gorbatov Co-author of scripts for the television films “It Was in the Donbass”, “The Unconquered” and “Donetsk Miners”, one of the founders of the association of proletarian writers of Donbass “Zaboi”, father of the famous novel “Donbass” - originally from the Lugansk region. He spent most of his life in Moscow, where he was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. But he also spent a lot of time in our region, namely in Artyomovsk (then Bakhmut). Here Boris Leontievich graduated from school, found his calling, and began to publish. At the age of 14, he was already a workers' correspondent for the provincial "Stoker". For some time he worked as a metal planer at the Kramatorsk plant, and then plunged headlong into journalism. Gorbatov created his first stories and novel (“Nashgorod”) on Donetsk soil.

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Filmed by Rozdobudko This Donetsk woman is now one of the top 10 most published Ukrainian writers. Winner of three national competitions “Coronation of the Word”, winner of the international literary prize named after. Prince Yuri Dolgorukov. Based on the works of our countrywoman, full-length films and TV series “Button”, “Autumn Flowers”, “Mysterious Island”, “Trap” were shot. As she admitted to Donbass, her childhood memories associated with life in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk were reflected in the novels “Yakbi” (“If ...”), “The Sixth Door”.

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Fantastic Berezin We also have creators of parallel realities and other worlds. Donetsk resident Fyodor Berezin, who served as a missile officer in Kazakhstan and then in the Far East, retired to the reserve with the rank of captain and returned to his hometown. He was an entrepreneur, a miner. And 15 years ago I took up writing. Yes, no joke - in 2001, he founded the “Wanderer” club of fantasy lovers in the capital of the region, and also took first place at the international science fiction festival “Star Bridge” in the category “Best Debut” (for the novel “Ashes”). Berezin defines his genre as “fantasy-philosophical techno-thriller.” His books are published by Moscow publishing houses.

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The talents are endless! Among those who glorified our region was the author of the trilogy “The Tale of a Harsh Friend”, “The Fate of Ilyusha Barabanov” and “Red Sabers”, as well as many short stories, tales and essays dedicated to our region (“Lights of Donbass”, “Miners’ Tales” ", "Battle on the Kalmius River") Leonid Zharikov; Pavel Baidebura, who raised the local writers' organization after the liberation of Donbass; the magnificent lyricist Natalya Khatkina (since 2010, a literary competition has been held in Donetsk in memory of her); laureates of the USSR State Prize Sergei Borzenkov and Vladimir Popov; laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine - Leonid Talalay and Ivan Dzyuba. The poetic work of Anatoly Kravchenko was awarded the All-Ukrainian Prize named after. Ushakov and international named after. Vinnichenko. The latter was also received by the poet Vladimir Kalinichenko and the prose writer, long-term “helmsman” of the literary magazine “Donbass” Viktor Logachev. The head of the region's writers' organization, the author of humorous prose Pavel Kushch, is our only fellow countryman awarded the prize. Ostap Cherry. Donetsk resident Oleg Zavyazkin with the collection “Malyava. Poems about death and love” won the international competition “Russian Prize” in 2007.