Valentin Ovechkin Biography

He studied at a technical school, worked as an apprentice at the shoemaker, lived in the village with relatives from a year, where he had to be labstered, shower, head-to-reader and teach at the school of Lycbeza. He began to write in the mid -19th century, and since the year he became a professional journalist - a traveling correspondent of newspapers of the South of European Russia.

He wrote mainly about the problems of the village and collective farm construction. In the year, V. during the Great Patriotic War fought an infantry officer, took place in battles from Stalingrad to Ukraine, worked in army and front -line newspapers. After demobilization in the years, he worked as a journalist in the newspaper Pravda Ukraine. In his articles, he criticized the fatal administrative-command style of the leadership of the village, as well as the mismanagement and incompetence of the local authorities, his literary work was also devoted to the same.

In, living in Taganrog, he wrote the play “Babier Summer” about the post -war Ukrainian village. In the year, he moves to the city of Ligs - the district center of the Kursk region, where he continued his work as a playwright, having written, which has become a noticeable, the play “Nastya Kolosova”, in which it touches on the problem of ostentatious successes on collective farms and concealment of miscalculations in the leadership of them.

Valentin Ovechkin became famous throughout the country after a cycle of five essays published in the years in the New World magazine under the general name “District Berries”. In the fall of the year, he makes a trip to the virgin lands, in the Omsk region of which the development of which became the basis of the economic policy of the Khrushchev time. The writer was shocked by the riots that were underway under the cover of a loud virgin campaign, which at that moment was the basis of the economic policy of the state of that time.

His sharp performance at the Kursk party conference against voluntarism, subjectivity and showdown in the work of party and Soviet officials, quite naturally caused the negative reaction of the audience - the same party officials against whom this criticism was directed. As a result of the troubles that followed his performance at the party conference, he had a nervous breakdown.

In the year, he moved to Tashkent. Subsequently, he wanted to return to Kursk from Tashkent, but the material problems and the infarction postponed prevented these plans. Died Valentin Vladimirovich Ovechkin in Tashkent January 27