Biography of Alexander Churkin

From childhood he helped his father on the household. I didn’t have to study much: I graduated only to the Ust-Moshi two-year school. In the year, when Arkhangelsk was seized by interventions and White Guards, fifteen -year -old Alexander came to the Plesetskaya station to volunteer in the Red Army. He was enrolled in the artistry communications team. In the year, the poet wrote: I do not forget you, Plesetskaya, here on my dad, I was lit a star here a song was born mine!

Churkin participated in the battles near Plesetskaya, Emtsy, Obozerskaya, for Arkhangelsk. In February, parts of the Red Army were liberated by Arkhangelsk. Churkin goes to the Southern Front and fights against the Wrangelians there. In years, A. Churkin studied at the Odessa Military School of Coastal Artillery, after which the platoon was appointed a platoon for one of the forts of Kronstadt.

In August, Churkin visited his homeland, in Pirogovo. He visited A. Chapygin in the Zazumikhinsky well-known writer A. Chapygin, performed with his poems at the gathering of the peasants. In the year, A. Churkin quit from Radov Red Army.

In the army, I was engaged in self -education. Here I began to write poetry. " These were marching marches. They were sang by the Red Army - fellow soldiers of the young poet. Alexander Churkin published the first poem in the year in the newspaper Odessa Izvestia. After Demobilized, Churkin came to Leningrad to Alexei Chapygin. According to his recommendations in the year, A.

Churkin was adopted by a liths employee in the Leningrad Magazine “Carpet”. Churkin, along with A. Prokopyev, A. Gitovich and B. Likharev, published a collection of poems “Running”. Next year, his autobiographical story “Diamond Territory” is published. One by one, collections of his verses come out: “Exiting of spring” year, “Second stage” year, “Selected Poems” year, “Songs and poems” year, “It is good to live” for a year, “Selected poems” for a year.

Churkina with composer V. Together they wrote two dozen songs “Cossack Cavalry”, “Evening Song” and others. Composers I. Dunaevsky, N. Dunaevsky, I. Dzerzhinsky, G. Sviridov, M. Formin and the summer of the year Churkin visited his homeland, met with collective farmers, went on a campaign in places of civil waartes. With the guys from the Fedosov pioneer camp.

From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, A. Churkin worked in the creative group of poets and composers under the political administration of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. In August, he wrote one of the most popular songs “Evening on the Raid” along with V. Solovyov-Sed. Here, after recovery, he worked as a liths -secretary of the District Military newspaper Patriot of the Homeland, published his poems in the newspaper Pravda North and the Almanac “North”.

Often, together with other writers, Yu. Herman, S. Pisakhov, V. Belyaev, E. Kokovin performed in hospitals, factory clubs and enterprises. Remembering the meetings with the poet in the editorial office of the Pravda of the North, Arkhangelsk journalist B. Ponomarev wrote: "Churkin was a smart and pleasant interlocutor bribing modesty and kindness." In years, the poet often visited his homeland - in Onega and Moshe, in Pirogovo.

In November, a meeting of A. Churkin with the working people of Plesetsk, who passed with great success, took place. In the year, Churkin returned to Leningrad, but did not break with the north. He came to Arkhangelsk and his native village Pirovo more than once. The northern Russian folk choir performed his songs for many years. And this is no accident: the poet’s work originates from the springs of Russian northern folk poetry.

The poet himself admitted: you, my north, the edge is epic, I took a lot of songs in reserve. The poems of Alexander Churkin are melodic, they seem to be asked for music themselves. In a creative community with different composers, the poet wrote more than two hundred songs. “Evening on the raid”, “from the edge and to the edge”, “Cossack song”, “Marsh of the Red Navy”, “Sweat and laugh, dear”, “The Cossack Cossack”, “Far-Ferry”, “Evening Song”, “Song of Leningrad”, “Wide Russia, Native Russia in the Year, was awarded the Order of the Clead,” “The Poem Sign”, “Wide Counter Counter”.

Collections of his verses continued to go out after his death. In the year, grateful fellow countrymen honored the Fedovsky rural library named after the poet. A memorial plaque with the inscription was installed on the library building: “Here in the years he was a reader and performed with his poems a songwriter, fellow countryman A. Prokofiev, A. Gitovich, B. Bubnoy Territory: the Onega story.

Read the release of spring: Poems. The second stage: [poems]. Selected poems. Read songs and poems. Good to live! The most expensive: poems and songs - [M. Poems, songs, poems. Glory to the polar explorers! Hello lumberjacks! Let's meet friends! Vikulov, V. Gura, E. Kokovin and others. Literature: Abramkin V. Writers of Leningrad: Biobibliogr. Abramkin, A.

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