Biography of Ivan Shamyakin

Father - Shamyakin Peter Minovich. Mother is St. Stepanovna. Supreuga - Maria Filatovna. The childhood of Ivan Shamyakin took place in his native village, in that cherished corner where the roosters sang at three republics at once: Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Perhaps it was the beauty of the native land that helped to develop the literary gift of the future big writer. During his studies at the technical school of building materials, Ivan Shamyakin wrote poetry and was a member of Litobobean at the city newspaper Gomelskaya Pravda.

In the year, having graduated from the technical school, he married and began to work in the district committee of the city of Bialystok.

But he was soon drafted into the army. He served as a gun commander in a separate anti-aircraft artillery division in the Murmansk region, where the war found him. Murmansk was bruised cruelly, the anti -aircraft gunners with mass raids had to be shot down on enemy aircraft. Soon Shamyakin was appointed a division by the Komsomol. He was a knowledgeable propagandist and interesting storyteller, so the fighters listened to him with pleasure.

For the authorities, he made up all kinds of reports, produced a wall newspaper, combat leaflets. Then he began to be published in army newspapers. Wrote and printed the first story. The military unit, which included a separate anti -aircraft division, was transferred to Poland to Poznan, and then to Germany, at the beginning of the year. When the battles ended, he, while still in the army, published the story “Revenge”, in which he glorified the humanism of the Soviet winning soldier.

Free time appeared, and he wrote the story “In the Snow Desert”, dedicated to the battles with the Nazis in the north, where he fought in the first months of the war. Demobilized in the fall of the year. Returning to his native lands, he began to work as a teacher of literature and language, in the evenings on the collective farm, where he conducted the seminars of agitators.

At night, living in a dilapidated dugout, with a kerosene lamp he wrote stories and a story about the past war. Very fame to Ivan Shamyakin brought the first novel - “Deep Current”. Readers praised this talented work, which was an undoubted achievement of Belarusian fiction. At the same time, it was an innovative work in prose about the war. It set many problems of the artistic image of the partisan struggle, which will be developed in the literature of subsequent years.

Of all the numerous heroes of the novel, the image of the Commissioner of Lesnitsky, a man of high civil duty, and impeccable morality, is most clearly painted. He is admired not only by his devotion to the work, but also by human qualities: honesty, nobility, courage. After the publication of the “deep course” about the past war, Ivan Shamyakin pays a lot of attention to modern topics.

However, the events of the Great Patriotic War organically enter into the plots of his works in which he shows the peaceful life of the people. In the 10ths, answering the questionnaire of the journal “Questions of Literature”, Ivan Petrovich wrote: “I, who has the basis for considering myself a writer studying modernity, cannot give anyone guarantees that in the future novel, work on whom I start, will not affect the theme of the war directly or indirectly, in some new aspects, even though the novel will talk about the events of our time, Shamyakin wrote novels“ at good time ”and at the good hour” and “Krinitsa” is about the collective farm life in the most difficult period of the restoration of the national economy destroyed by the war.

From under the pen of Shamyakin, works, entirely dedicated to the war, continue to appear. For example, a cycle of five stories is widely known: “Unique Spring”, “Night Lnights”, “Fire and Snow”, “In search of a meeting”, “Bridge”, united by the general name “Alarm Happiness” - this book is largely autobiographical, it tells of love and fidelity, about the spiritual beauty of the Soviet man.

At the same time, in the stories that compiled this very substantial book, bureaucracy, Kazenchin and indifference to human fate are exposed. Later, the novels “The Marriage Night” and “Trading and the Poet” came out, the topic of which was close to the novel “Deep Current”. At the end of the x, I. Shamyakin published the novel Atlanta and Carotids. The theme of military duty and heroic feat on the fronts and in the rear of the German invaders, especially the struggle of the Belarusian partisans, for a long time become decisive in the versatile work of Ivan Shamyakin.

He devotes this topic to the novels “Snow Winter”, “Take your salt” and “Heart in the palm of your hand”, marked by the Yakub Kolos Republican Prize. The results of the more than the summer creative work of I. Shamyakin are very impressive: it was published, the volume in printed sheets and a total circulation of more than 25 million copies. The author considers the best of them the novels “deep current”, “Krinitsa”, “Heart in the palm of your hand”, “Snow Winters”, “Atlanteans and Cariathids”, “Take your pain”, “Petrograd - Brest”, “Zenit”, “Evil Star” and “Grand Duchess”.

In addition to enormous literary activity, Ivan Petrovich has been actively involved in socio-political life all his life. So, immediately after graduating from the Republican Party School, he was elected secretary of the party organization of the Union of Writers of Belarus.In the year he was transferred to the post of deputy chairman of the board of the republican writer's organization.

In total, he "stood at the helm on the captain's bridge of the ship, maybe resistant to storms, but with a very troubled team." Since the year, I. Shamyakin, editor -in -chief of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia, became an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. In the year, he was elected academician of the International Slavic Academy of Sciences, Education, Arts and Culture.

By his summer, the writer was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Once, in an interview with readers, Ivan Petrovich said that the time comes when the writer's biography is becoming the works he created. This time has come for Shamyakin himself. In January of the year, the public of Belarus and the wide reader circles of the CIS noted his summer. This date is very serious, allowing you to see everything that the writer created for his long and difficult life.

He himself told something about his work in the book “Talk with the reader” he was convinced that the theme of the Great Patriotic War would not disappear from literature, while its last participants are alive.