(March 15, 1924)
Yuri Vasilevich
Born March 15, 1924 in the city of Orsk, Orenburg Region. Father - Bondarev Basil Vasilevich(1896-1988), worked as a people's investigator. Mother - Bondareva Claudia Iosifovna (1900-1978). Spouse - Bondareva Valentina Nikitichna (born in 1927). Daughters: Bondareva Elena Yurievna (born in 1952), specialist in English language; Bondareva Ekaterina Yurievna (born in 1960), artist. Grandson - Bondarev Andrew, diplomat.

In 1931 Bondarevs moved to Moscow. They lived in Zamoskvorechye. Yuri studied at the 516th high school. Lessons, passion for football, skating, pigeons - the usual boyish life with its joys and sorrows. Books also occupied a large place in a number of his interests. This was largely facilitated by his mother, who often read to him in the evenings and gradually made her son addicted to Russian classics.

But, perhaps, the future writer received the main test of character in the war. In 1941, a Komsomol member Bondarev Together with thousands of young Muscovites, he participated in the construction of defensive fortifications near Smolensk. Then there was the evacuation, where Yuri graduated from the 10th grade. In the summer of 1942, he was sent to study at the 2nd Berdichev Infantry School in the city of Aktyubinsk. In October of the same year, the cadets were transferred to Stalingrad. Bondarev was enlisted as the commander of the mortar crew of the 308th regiment of the 98th rifle division. In the battles near Kotelnikov, he was shell-shocked, received frostbite and a slight wound in the back. After treatment in the hospital, he served as a gun commander in the 23rd Kiev-Zhytomyr division. Participated in the crossing of the Dnieper and the storming of Kyiv. In the battles for Zhytomyr he was wounded and again ended up in a field hospital.

From January 1944 Yu. Bondarev fought in the ranks of the 121st Rylsko-Kyiv Red Banner Division in Poland and on the border with Czechoslovakia. In October, by order, he was sent to the Chkalov School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and, after graduating in December 1945, was recognized as partially fit for service and demobilized due to injuries.

front way Bondareva awarded military decorations: Order Patriotic War I degree, two medals "For Courage", medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Victory over Germany", Polish medals. During the war, he joined the Communist Party and remained in its ranks until 1991.
It is at the front in the mind of Yu. Bondareva crystal clear and clear commandments of love for the motherland, decency, fidelity finally entered. After all, in battle everything is naked and obvious - what is good and what is evil. And everyone faces a choice. Bondarev made his choice once and for all. He chose the coast of human decency. And there, in the war, the writer understood the main thing: "a person is born for love, not for hatred" (the words of the hero of the story "Battalions ask for fire").

After the war Yuri Bondarev graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, in 1949 he began to publish. In 1951 he was elected a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR. His first collection of short stories, On the Big River, was published in 1953.

Very soon Bondarev became one of the most published authors. His novels belong to his pen: "Silence" (1962), "Two" (1964), "Hot Snow" (1969), "Shore" (1975), "Choice" (1980), "Game" (1985), "Temptation "(1991)," Nonresistance "(1996)," Bermuda Triangle "(1999); stories: "The Youth of the Commanders" (1956), "The Battalions Ask for Fire" (1957), "The Last Volleys" (1959), "Relatives" (1969); collection of stories "Late in the evening" (1976); cycles of miniatures "Moments" (since 1977); books of literary articles "Search for Truth" (1976), "A Look into Biography" (1977), "Keepers of Values" (1978).

Artworks Bondareva translated into over 70 languages, including English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Turkish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek, Arabic, Hindi and other. In total, 130 works were published abroad during the period from 1958 to 1980 Bondareva. In the Soviet Union and Russia, 3 collected works of the writer were published: 1973-1974 (4 vols.), 1984-1986 (6 vols.), 1993-1996 (9 vols.).

Based on the works of Yuri Bondareva feature films "The Last Salvos", "Silence", "Hot Snow", "Battalions Ask for Fire", "Shore", "Choice" were shot. Paintings based on the works of the writer were watched, without exaggeration, by the whole world. According to the script by Y. Bondareva(together with Yu. Ozerov and O. Kurganov) the epic "Liberation" was filmed, the audience of which was more than 350 million people. As one of the authors of the script for the films "Liberation": "Arc of Fire", "Breakthrough", "Direction of the Main Strike", "Battle for Berlin", "Last Assault", in 1972 Yu. V. Bondarev was awarded the Lenin Prize.
Several books have been devoted to the writer's work. Among them: V. Mikhailov " Yuri Bondarev"(1976), E. Gorbunova" Yuri Bondarev"(1989), V. Korobov" Yuri Bondarev"(1984), Y. Idashkin" Yuri Bondarev"(1987), N. Fed" Artistic discoveries Bondareva" (1988).

Along with creativity, Yu.V. Bondarev leads and active social activities. From 1959 to 1963 he was a member of the editorial board, editor of the literature and criticism section of Literaturnaya Gazeta. In November 1971, he was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR, and from 1990 to 1994 he was Chairman of the Writers' Union of Russia. For eight years, from 1991 to 1999, he served as co-chairman of the International Society of Writers' Unions. In 1974-1979 he headed a voluntary society of book lovers.

In 1963 Yuri Bondarev was admitted to the Union of Cinematographers. In 1961-1966, he was the editor-in-chief of the Association of Writers and Film Workers at the Mosfilm studio.

The writer was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the IX-X convocations, was deputy chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1984-1989), a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (1990-1991).

Currently Yu.V. Bondarev- Full member of the Russian, International Slavic and Pushkin Academies, as well as the Academy of Russian Literature. He was elected an honorary professor of the State Open Pedagogical University.
Yu. V. Bondarev- Hero of Socialist Labor (1984), winner of the Lenin Prize (1972), two State Prizes of the USSR (1974, 1983) - for the novels "Coast" and "Choice"), the State Prize of the RSFSR (1975 - for the scripts for the film "Hot Snow" ), the Leo Tolstoy Prize (1993), the Mikhail Sholokhov International Prize (1994), the All-Russian Stalingrad Prize. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Badge of Honor, the gold medal of A. A. Fadeev, and the Order of Big Star Friendship of Peoples (GDR).

Yuri Vasilevich fond of painting. At home, he collected an impressive collection of books on painting and albums with reproductions of world masterpieces.

In people, the writer highly appreciates integrity: “This means being able to be restrained, being able to listen to an interlocutor (great dignity in communicating people), not overstepping the boundaries of anger, namely, being able to control oneself, not being late to come to a call for help in someone else’s misfortune, being able to be grateful..."
His assessments of modernity are extremely harsh: "We live in timelessness, without big ideas, without natural kindness and morality, without modesty and defensive modesty ... Our freedom is the freedom to spit into our past, present and future, into the holy, inviolable, pure ... "However, Yuri Bondarev does not lose faith in the future. He is convinced that even in the worst tragedy there is hope.
Lives and works in Moscow.

Biography, life story of Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev

Family and childhood

Yuri Vasilievich Bondarev, writer, was born on the 15th of March in 1924 in the city of Orsk, which is located in the Orenburg region. His father, Vasily Vasilyevich Bondarev, was an investigator and lawyer. Mother - Claudia Iosifovna. The family moved to Moscow in 1931.

War years

As a school student, Yuri Bondarev built defensive fortifications near Smolensk in 1941. Finished school in evacuation. After graduating from school in 1942, he was sent to Aktyubinsk to an infantry school. In October, the cadets of the school were sent to Stalingrad. There, Bondarev was enlisted as the commander of a mortar crew. He was shell-shocked in battles and wounded, after treatment he fought again, took part in the storming of Kyiv and was wounded a second time in the battles for Zhytomyr. In January 1944 he fought again in Czechoslovakia and Poland. In October 1944 he was sent to the Chkalov Artillery School. In December 1945, he graduated from college and was recognized as partially fit for military service and demobilized due to injuries.

Literary activity

Yuri Bondarev entered the Literary Institute and graduated in 1951. He quickly became a popular writer and was one of the most published Soviet authors. The first work was published in 1949. Then there were several books, of which the most famous are books about the war: "Battalions Ask for Fire", "Hot Snow", "Last Salvos", "Silence" and many others. All these works have been scripted and made into films. Yuri Bondarev took part in writing almost all the scripts. He is also the author of the screenplay for the movie "Hot Snow".

Union of Cinematographers, Mosfilm

Yuri Bondarev in 1963 was accepted as a member of the Union of Cinematographers. In the period from 1961 to 1966, he served as chief editor of the Association of Film Workers and Writers at the Mosfilm studio.

Leadership positions and position in science

Yuri Vasilievich Bondarev became a member of the Writers' Union in 1967 and held senior positions in the Writers' Union of the USSR for all years until 1994. Bondarev was the chairman of the board of the voluntary society of book lovers, the honorary chairman of the Union of Writers of the Moscow Region. He was also an Academician of the Academy of Russian Literature.

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Being a staunch communist, Yuri Bondarev was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR in the period 1990-1991. From 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the Council of Nationalities in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Bondarev was a delegate to the All-Union Conference of the CPSU in 1988. He was also a member of the Central Council of the movement called "Spiritual Heritage", was a member of the Duma of the Russian National Cathedral and the Duma of the Slavic Cathedral.

Cooperation with magazines and newspapers

Bondarev was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Roman-gazeta", "Our Contemporary", "Our Heritage", "Kuban" and a member of the editorial board of the journal "The World of Education - Education in the World". He was also a member of the editorial board of the Literary Eurasia newspaper.

Biography facts

In 1991, Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev signed the "Word to the People", an appeal in support of the State Emergency Committee. Yuri Bondarev refused to accept the Order of Friendship of Peoples in 1994 from the president.

Personal life

Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev and his wife Valentina Nikitichnaya had two daughters - Elena in 1952 and Ekaterina in 1960.

Medals and orders, other awards

Bondarev was awarded many military medals: "For the victory over Germany", "For the defense of Stalingrad", "For courage" (two medals). Bondarev was awarded the orders: the October Revolution, (two), the Patriotic War, the Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor. He was also awarded the "Gold Medal to them.", medals "For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth", "For Merit in the Border Service", "90 Years of the VOSR", a medal to them. Dovzhenko.

Lenin Prize and other awards

Yuri Bondarev was awarded the Lenin Prize for the script for the film "Liberation", the State Prize of the RSFSR, the State Prize of the USSR (twice). He also has a number of other awards and prizes: he is a Hero of Socialist Labor, an Honorary Citizen of the city of Volgograd, was awarded the All-Russian Prize "Stalingrad", has a diploma of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and was awarded the Golden Dagger Prize.

Literary awards

Yuri Bondarev was twice awarded the "Our Contemporary" prize, the prize named after

Soviet writer Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev was born on March 15, 1924 in Orsk, Orenburg region. In 1931 his family moved to Moscow.
In 1941, Yuri Bondarev participated in the construction of defensive fortifications near Smolensk. He graduated from the tenth grade in evacuation.

In the summer of 1942, he was sent to study at the 2nd Berdichev Infantry School, which was evacuated to the city of Aktyubinsk (Kazakhstan). In October 1942, he was sent to Stalingrad (now Volgograd) and enlisted as the commander of the mortar crew of the 308th regiment of the 98th rifle division. Later he served as a gun commander in the 23rd Kiev-Zhytomyr division. Participated in the crossing of the Dnieper and the liberation of Kyiv. Was wounded twice.

From January 1944, Bondarev fought in the ranks of the 121st Red Banner Rylsko-Kyiv Rifle Division in Poland and on the border with Czechoslovakia. In October he was sent to the Chkalovsky school of anti-aircraft artillery. After graduation in December 1945, he was recognized as partially fit for service and demobilized due to injuries.

The front line of the future writer was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals "For Courage", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Victory over Germany", a number of Polish awards.

In 1944, Bondarev joined the Communist Party and remained in it until the collapse of the USSR.

In 1949 he began to publish in the popular magazines Smena, Ogonyok, Oktyabr. In 1951 he graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute and was admitted to the Writers' Union.

In 1953, the first author's collection of Bondarev's stories "On the Big River" was published. Pretty soon, Yuri Bondarev became one of the most published authors in the USSR. The main theme of his work is the heroism of Soviet soldiers, the psychology of man in war.

Yuri Bondarev is the author of the novels Silence (1962), Two (1964), Hot Snow (1969), Shore (1975), Choice (1980), Game (1985), Temptation "(1991)," Nonresistance "(1996)," Bermuda Triangle "(1999)," Without Mercy "(2004); the stories The Youth of Commanders (1956), The Battalions Ask for Fire (1957), The Last Volleys (1959), Relatives (1969); collection of short stories "Late in the evening" (1976); books of literary articles "Search for Truth" (1976), "A Look into Biography" (1977), "Keepers of Values" (1978).

For many decades, the writer continues to work on a cycle of miniatures, called "Moments".

Bondarev's works have been translated into more than 70 languages ​​of the world. The feature films "The Last Salvos" (1960), "Silence" (1963), "Hot Snow" (1972), "Shore" (1983), "Battalions Ask for Fire" (1985), "Choice" (1987) are based on works Yuri Bondarev.

In 1968-1972, the film epic "Liberation" directed by Yuri Ozerov was created, also dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. This film was watched by 350 million viewers in the USSR alone in two years. Bondarev, as one of the authors of the script, was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1972.

From 1959 to 1963, Yuri Bondarev was a member of the editorial board, editor of the department of literature and criticism of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, in 1961-1966 he was the editor-in-chief of the Association of Writers and Film Workers at the Mosfilm studio.

Along with creativity, Bondarev has always been active in social activities. In 1971 he was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR, and from 1990 to 1994 he was Chairman of the Union of Writers of Russia. For eight years, from 1991 to 1999, he served as co-chairman of the International Community of Writers' Unions.

In 1974-1979 he headed the All-Union Voluntary Society of Book Lovers.

The writer was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 9th and 10th convocations, and was deputy chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1984-1989).

Yuri Bondarev - member of the Union of Cinematographers (1963). Active member Russian, International Slavic, Petrovsky academies, Academy of Russian literature, honorary member of the Pushkin Academy.

Hero of Socialist Labor (1984). He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree (1985), the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1974), the Order of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994, refused), medals, as well as orders and medals of foreign states .

Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1972), State Prize of the USSR (1977, 1983), State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasiliev Brothers (1975), Prize named after

Leo Tolstoy (1993), Mikhail Sholokhov International Prize (1994), etc.

Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd.

In 2013, the writer of the literary award "Yasnaya Polyana" in the honorary nomination "Modern Classics".

Yuri Bondarev is married. He has two daughters, Elena (born 1952), an English language specialist, and Ekaterina (born 1960), an artist.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from open sources

Soviet literature

Yuri Vasilievich Bondarev

Biography

BONDAREV, YURI VASILIEVICH (b. 1924), Russian writer. Born March 15, 1924 in Orsk in the family of a peasant - a participant in the struggle for the establishment of Soviet power in the Urals, later a lawyer. He spent the early years of his life in the Orenbuzh region, in the Southern Urals, in Central Asia. From 1931 he lived in Moscow. During the Great Patriotic War, he was evacuated to Kazakhstan; after graduating from a military school, he took the first battle on the Stalingrad front, was wounded. The war continued as the commander of an anti-tank gun. In 1945-1951 he studied at the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky (seminar of K. G. Paustovsky).

The first stories published in 1949, in 1953 - the first Sat. stories on the big river. In 1956 Bondarev's novel Youth of Commanders was published. Real fame came to Bondarev after the publication of the stories Battalions Ask for Fire (1957) and The Last Volleys (1959), which marked the beginning of the so-called. "lieutenant's prose", marked by the very "trench truth", the origins of which date back to the famous novel by E. M. Remarque during the First World War All Quiet on the Western Front.

Roman Bondareva Silence (1962) continued the pan-European theme of the "lost generation" - the difficult entry into the peaceful life of young people who got to the front from school. In the novel Hot Snow (1969), the problem of the value of the human person is even more acute. Since the beginning of the 1970s, in Bondarev's work, the sharpness of psychological collisions has been associated mainly with the sphere of private life, emphasizing the existential responsibility of everyone for their own destiny - whether it be the relationship between a man and a woman, a "conqueror" and a vanquished one, a choice between the life of a traitor and the death of a hero, between the pangs of true creativity and the well-being of routine (tetralogy Shore, 1975, State Prize of the USSR, 1977; Choice, 1980, State Prize of the USSR, 1983; Game, 1985, Temptation, 1991). The hero of Bondarev's novels, a strong, creative and prosperous man, is clearly autobiographical (writer Nikitin, artist Vasiliev, film director Krymov, scientist Drozdov). Over the years, in the works of Bondarev, the “play” is becoming more and more free not only with complex human destinies, but also with temporal and spatial layers - and at the same time, travels through the convolutions of the human soul become even more sophisticated, fixing every moment of perception of a flowing event (a cycle of impressionistic miniatures of Moments, 1977−1982). Bondarev is the author of the publicistic and topical novel about modernity Resistance (1994−1996), a book of reflections on the role of literature in the historical process Search for Truth (1976), numerous works for theater and cinema (including participation in the film epic about the Great Patriotic War Liberation , 1970−1972, Lenin Prize, 1972).

Bondarev Yuri Vasilyevich (b. 1924), Russian writer. Born in Orsk on March 15, 1924, in the family of a peasant who took part in the struggle for the establishment of Soviet power in the Urals, later a lawyer. The first years of Yuri Vasilyevich were spent in the Southern Urals, in the Orenbuzh region and Central Asia. From 1931 he began to live in Moscow. During the Great Patriotic War he was evacuated to Kazakhstan. When Bondarev graduated military school, went to the front, where he was wounded in the first battle. During the war he served as an anti-tank gun commander. After the end of the war, in 1945-1951 he studied at the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky (seminar of K. G. Paustovsky).

The first story by Yuri Vasilievich was published in 1949, and in 1953 the first collection of stories "On the Big River" was published. The story "Youth of Commanders" was published in 1956. Bondarev gained real fame after the stories "Battalions Ask for Fire" and "The Last Volleys", which were published in 1957 and 1959. respectively. These prose laid the foundation for the so-called “lieutenant prose”, which was marked by the very “trench truth”, its origins lead to the famous novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by E. M. Remarque, dating back to the First World War.

The continuation of the pan-European theme of the “lost generation” was the novel Silence (1962), which describes the difficulties associated with the entry into the peaceful life of young people who ended up at the front from school. In the novel Hot Snow (1969), the problem of the values ​​of the human person is very acute. If we consider the work of Bondarev since the early 1970s, we can draw a line between how the acuteness of psychological collisions is combined with private life, while emphasizing the responsibility of each person for his own destiny. Whether it is the relationship between the "conqueror" and the vanquished, man and woman, the choice between the torments of true creativity and the well-being of routine, between the life of a traitor and the death of a hero. The hero of Bondarev's novels is a strong, successful and creative person.