Date of Birth: 15.03.1924
Russian, Soviet writer, prose writer, screenwriter, publicist. "Classic" of military prose. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. The main problems of the works: the problem of moral choice (both in wartime and in peacetime), the search for a person's place in the world.
Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev was born in the city of Orsk, Orenburg region. Father (1896-1988) worked as a people's investigator, lawyer, and administrative worker. In 1931 the Bondarevs moved to Moscow.
Bondarev graduated from school in evacuation and was immediately sent to the 2nd Berdichev Infantry School in the city of Aktobe. In October of the same year, the cadets were transferred to Stalingrad. Bondarev was enlisted as the commander of the mortar crew. 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, 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 the hospital. From January 1944, Y. Bondarev fought in Poland and on the border with Czechoslovakia. In October 1944 he was sent to the Chkalovsky school of anti-aircraft artillery and after graduation in December 1945 he was recognized as partially fit for service and demobilized due to injuries. He finished the war with the rank of junior lieutenant.
He made his debut in print in 1949. He graduated from the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky (1951 seminar by K. G. Paustovsky). In the same year he was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR. The first collection of short stories, On the Big River, was published in 1953.
Bondarev's works quickly gain popularity and he becomes one of the most published authors.
Apart from literary activity Bondarev pays attention to cinema. Acts as a scriptwriter for film adaptations of his own works: "The Last Salvos", "Silence", "Hot Snow", "Battalions Ask for Fire", "Coast", "Choice". Also, Y. Bondarev was one of the screenwriters of the film epic "Liberation", dedicated to the global events of the Great Patriotic War. In 1963, Y. Bondarev was admitted to the Union of Cinematographers. In 1961-66, he was the editor-in-chief of the Association of Writers and Film Workers at the Mosfilm studio.
He held senior positions in the Writers' Union: he was a member (since 1967) and secretary of the board (1971-August 91), a member of the bureau of the secretariat of the board (1986-91), secretary of the board (1970-71), first deputy. chairman of the board (1971-90) and chairman of the board of the SP RSFSR (December 1990-94). In addition, Y. Bondarev was the chairman of the board of the Russian Voluntary Society of Book Lovers (1974-79), a member of the editorial board of the journal. Bondarev is a member of the Supreme Creative Council of the SP of Russia (since 1994), an honorary co-chairman of the SP of the Moscow Region (since 1999). Member of the editorial boards of the magazines "Our Heritage", "", "Kuban" (since 1999), "The World of Education - Education in the World" (since 2001), the newspaper "Lit. Eurasia" (since 1999), the Central Council of the movement "Spiritual Heritage" . Academician of the Academy of Russian Literature (1996). He was elected deputy and deputy. Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the USSR Armed Forces (1984-91). He was a member of the Duma of the Slavic Cathedral (1991), the Duma of the Russian National. Cathedral (1992).
Y. Bondarev consistently adheres to communist beliefs. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (1990-1991). In 1991, he signed the appeal "Word to the people" in support of the State Emergency Committee.
Married, two children (daughter).
Y. Bondarev resigned from the editorial board of the journal in protest against the publication of the novel "October 16"
In 1989, Y. Bondarev stated that he did not consider it "possible to be among the founders of the Soviet PEN Center", since the list of founders includes those "with whom I am in moral disagreement in relation to literature, art, history and universal values."
In 1994, Yu. Bondarev refused to be awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, writing in a telegram to the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin: "Today this will no longer help the good agreement and friendship of the peoples of our great country."
Writer's Awards
Orders and medals
Order of Lenin (twice)
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labor
Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class
Order of the Badge of Honor
Medal "For Courage" (twice)
Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad"
Medal "For the victory over Germany"
A. A. Fadeev Gold Medal (1973)
Medal For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth (1986)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994, refused to be awarded)
Medal "For Merit in the Border Service" 1st class (1999)
Medal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation "90 years of the Great October Socialist Revolution" (2007)
Other awards
Big Star of Friendship of Peoples (GDR)
(1972, for the script for the movie "Liberation")
State Prize of the RSFSR (1975, for the script for the film "Hot Snow")
(1977, 1983, for the novels The Shore and The Choice)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1984)
All-Russian Prize "Stalingrad" (1997)
Award "Golden Dagger" and diploma of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (1999)
Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd (2004)
Literary awards
Magazine Awards (twice: 1975, 1999)
Leo Tolstoy Prize (1993)
International Prize named after M. A. Sholokhov in the field of literature and art (1994)
All-Russian literary award "" (2013)
(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 secondary 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 He was awarded military decorations: the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, two medals "For Courage", medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Victory over Germany", and 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 the 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 and is active in 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 Badge of Honor, the gold medal of A. A. Fadeev, and the Order of the Great Star of 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 protective bashfulness ... 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.
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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 chairman of the board of the voluntary society of book lovers, Honorary Chairman Union of Writers of the Moscow Region. He was also an Academician of the Academy of Russian Literature.
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Party activities and social movements
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
Yuri Vasilievich Bondarev. Born March 15, 1924. Russian Soviet writer and screenwriter. Hero of Socialist Labor (1984), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1972) and two State Prizes of the USSR (1977, 1983).
Yuri Bondarev was born on March 15, 1924 in the city of Orsk, Orenburg province (now the Orenburg region).
Father - Bondarev Vasily Vasilyevich (1896-1988), worked as an investigator.
Mother - Bondareva Claudia Iosifovna (1900-1978).
In 1931 they moved to Moscow.
Member of the Great Patriotic War (since August 1942), junior lieutenant.
In 1941, the Komsomol member Bondarev, together with thousands of young Muscovites, participated in the construction of defensive fortifications near Smolensk.
In the summer of 1942, after finishing 10th grade high school, sent to study at the 2nd Berdichev Infantry School, which was evacuated to the city of Aktyubinsk.
In October 1942, the cadets were sent 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 Kotelnikovsky (now Kotelnikovo) 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 89th Infantry Regiment of the 23rd Infantry Division of the Voronezh Front.
Participated in the crossing of the Dnieper and the liberation of Kyiv. In the battles for Zhytomyr he was wounded and again ended up in a field hospital.
For the destruction in the area of the village of Boromlya, Sumy region, from the combat formations of infantry, three firing points, a vehicle, an anti-tank gun and 20 enemy soldiers and officers, he was awarded the medal "For Courage".
For a wrecked tank and repelling an attack by German infantry near the city of Kamenetz-Podolsky, he was awarded the second medal "For Courage".
From January 1944, Y. Bondarev fought in the ranks of the 121st Red Banner Rylsko-Kyiv Rifle Division in Poland and on the border with Czechoslovakia.
Member of the CPSU (b) since 1944.
In October, he was sent to the Chkalov Artillery School and, after graduating in December 1945, was recognized as partially fit for service and demobilized due to injuries.
Graduated from the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky (1945 - 1951).
He made his debut in print in 1949. The first collection of short stories, On the Big River, was published in 1953. Author of short stories (collection "Late in the Evening", 1962), novels "Youth of Commanders" (1956), "Battalions Ask for Fire" (1957; 4-episode film "Battalions Ask for Fire" based on the story, 1985), "The Last Volleys" ( 1959; film of the same name, 1961), "Relatives" (1969), novels "Hot Snow" (1969; film of the same name, 1972), "Silence" (1962; film of the same name, 1964), "Two" (continuation of the novel "Silence" ; 1964), "Coast" (1975; film of the same name, 1984).
Scriptwriter of the film based on the novel "Hot Snow" (1972). One of the authors of the script for the film epic Liberation (1970) and the film Battalions Ask for Fire. These novels are based on the story of the Red Army soldier Vasily Afanasyevich Svinin, who served in the NKVD artillery regiment. Of all the personnel, only he survived, he was seriously wounded. In 1944, the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda wrote about the feat of Pork.
In his novels of the 70s of the twentieth century and later, the writer intensely reflects on the fate of the Soviet Union and Russia, largely foresees the causes of the collapse of the USSR and the subsequent degradation of Soviet society, reflects on the meaning of life, death, the dangers of conformism, explores the subtlest feelings and experiences a person at the turning and fateful moments of personal and social history.
Signed a Letter from a group of Soviet writers to the editors of the Pravda newspaper on August 31, 1973 about Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov.
Member of the Council of Nationalities of the USSR Armed Forces of the 11th convocation (1984-1989) from the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region.
Delegate of the XIX All-Union Conference of the CPSU (1988).
At the 19th All-Union Party Conference on June 29, 1988, Yuri Bondarev from the podium compared Gorbachev's perestroika with an airplane that was lifted into the air, not knowing if there was a landing site at the destination. In the same place, he sharply condemned the denigration of the Soviet past and Soviet reality, which was then unfolding in the press and television.
Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (1990-1991).
In 1991, he signed the appeal "Word to the people".
In January 1992, at the head of a group of Soviet writers, he burned an effigy of Yevgeny Yevtushenko in protest against the transformation of the Writers' Union of the USSR into the Commonwealth of Writers' Unions.
In 1994, he publicly refused to accept the Order of Friendship of Peoples on the occasion of his 70th birthday. He expressed his position in a telegram addressed to the first president of Russia, in which he indicated: "Today this will no longer help the good harmony and friendship of the peoples of our great country."
Chairman of the Board of the Union of Writers of Russia in 1991-2013.
He was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Roman-gazeta".
Since 2001, he has been a member of the editorial board of the journal "The World of Education - Education in the World".
Honorary member of the St. Petersburg public organization Academy of Russian Literature and Fine Arts named after G. R. Derzhavin.
Personal life of Yuri Bondarev:
Wife - Valentina Nikitichna Bondareva (born in 1927). Daughters: Elena (b. 1952) and Ekaterina (b. 1960).
Hobby: painting - as a researcher and collector.
Novels by Yuri Bondarev:
Battalions ask for fire M., Soviet writer, 1957
Silence (1962)
Two (1964)
Hot Snow (1970)
Shore (1975)
Choice (1981)
Game (1985)
Temptation (1992)
Nonresistance (1996)
Bermuda Triangle (1999)
No Mercy (2004)
Yury Bondarev's stories:
Youth of commanders (1956)
Last Volleys (1959)
Relatives (1969)
Name: Yuri Bondarev
Age: 94 years old
Place of Birth: Orsk, Orenburg province
Activity: writer and screenwriter
Family status: married
Biography
The well-known writer, screenwriter, Hero of Socialist Labor Yuri Vasilievich was awarded the title of laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes. His works are known all over the world.
The writer comes from the Orenburg region, from the city of Orsk. His father, having received a legal education, worked as an investigator, his mother was a housewife. At first, the family lived in the south of the Urals, then for some time they lived in Central Asia. When Yura was 7 years old, his parents moved to the capital. There, the future writer graduated from high school. With the outbreak of war, the family was evacuated to Kazakhstan, but Yuri did not want to leave his homeland in danger.
The young man participated in the war of 1941-1945, returned home with the rank of second lieutenant. Part of his biography became military. From the very beginning of the war, he built fortifications for the defense of Smolensk. After graduating from high school, in 1942, he studied at the infantry school of Berdichev, evacuated to Aktyubinsk. After completing the training course, young cadets were sent to Stalingrad. Bondarev commanded the mortar crew.
Injuries
Bondarev had a chance to experience all the horrors of hostilities. When the fighting was going on near Kotelnikovsky, Yuri was shell-shocked, frostbitten and wounded in the back. Having recovered, he again went to the front in a rifle division on the Voronezh front. Forced the Dnieper and liberated the capital of Ukraine. He was wounded again, he again ended up in the hospital. He bravely fought with the enemy, therefore he was awarded the medal "For Courage".
He received the second medal for repulsing the German attack near the city of Kamenetz-Podolsky. On the territory of Russia, the war did not end for Bondarev, he liberated Poland and Czechoslovakia. In the winter of 1945, he was demobilized due to his injuries.
Literature, books
After the Victory and dismissal from the army, the future writer decides to change his biography. He searched for himself for a long time, doing various jobs. By chance, one of his friends became interested in those drafts of stories that Bondarev composed about the years spent in the war. The future writer took writing seriously, with inner trepidation.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky instilled confidence in Yuri Vasilyevich. He gave the beginning writer the necessary advice. Bondarev enters the literary institute. Two years after graduation, he publishes his first collection of short stories, 9 years later his second collection is published.
Bondarev begins to create scripts for films. Several pictures were taken: "Battalions ask for fire", "Last volleys", "Hot snow", "Shore", "Liberation". The plots of the writer's works were based only on real events and people. The writer did not need to invent anything, he saw everything himself and experienced the brunt of the war on himself. The newspaper "Red Star" wrote about the feat of the Red Army soldier Vasily Svinin.
The writer also mentioned this hero in one of his works. The novel "Hot Snow" was written for four years. The hero of Bondarev actually existed. Such young lieutenants were sent to the front not yet fired upon. Kuznetsov did everything in his power to earn the respect of his subordinates. The writer managed to show the reader how a person is formed in a war.
New novels
In novels written in the 70s, the writer begins to worry about other topics. The heroic theme continues, but now reflections on life and its meaning are added. He managed to create a new genre, his works became miniatures with philosophical reflections. The writer's stories have their own distinctive features. They are humane, decent, humane and fair. A person is defined by his actions. Sometimes Bondarev acts like a prophet, arguing about what will happen if Soviet Union will fall apart. The writer is active in social and political activities.
He is often elected as a deputy, Bondarev boldly speaks out about the short-sightedness of MS Gorbachev's policy. In the media and on television, they often began to invent those facts that denigrate the past of the Motherland, distort reality. This greatly upset and indignant the author of truthful works. From 1991 to 2013 he was chairman of Russian Union writers, with his participation the well-known literary magazine "Roman-gazeta" was published.
Personal life
Yuri Vasilyevich married once in his life. His wife, Valentina Nikitichna, gave birth to two daughters, Elena and Ekaterina, 8 years apart. The writer's great-grandson Yuri and great-granddaughter Lisa are growing up. The boy loves to sing, and the girl speaks English in her sleep. The Bondarevs are hospitable. Their family has always had good relations with Viktor Rozov, Vladimir Tendryakov.
The writer was well acquainted with Marshal Zhukov, Marshal Chuikov. Bondarev was very fond of painting, loved the great Russian artists. The writer fought for the accessibility of culture, for the purity of the Russian language. He was fond of hunting and fishing.
The writer's books were translated into 85 languages, but he did not win the Nobel Prize. Yuri Vasilievich loved his parents very much, his father lived to be 92 years old. His biography of life was very difficult. On a false denunciation, he was arrested and imprisoned for 10 years, he returned sick with tuberculosis. Yuri Vasilyevich tried to cure him, but all to no avail. In the Bondarev family, all men are long-livers.
