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Виталий Семёнович Маслов - _cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905-5cde-3194- bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_ Writer
Vitaly Semyonovich Maslov. Chairman of the Murmansk Branch of the All-Russian Cultural Fund and Secretary of the Murmansk Regional Organization of the Writers' Union of Russia. Honorable Sir Murmansk
Vitaly Semyonovich Maslov was born on September 1 1935 in a Pomeranian family in a small village Syomzha Mezensky district Northern Territory on the Kanin coast White Sea. He graduated from elementary school there, then a seven-year school in the village Kamenka of the same area. С 1951 by 1956 studied at the Leningrad Naval School at the Radio Engineering Department, after which he received a job assignment first at Far East, and then in the Sakhalin Shipping Company as an electric navigator on the ships "Bolsheretsk", "Budenovsk", "Azov".
However, already in 1959 Vitaly Maslov returns to his homeland, where he gets a job as an electrician in the Arkhangelsk hydrographic base of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route. But even at this place, the future writer does not stay long, he leaves with the hydrographic vessel "Hoarfrost" in Tiksi. Having worked four navigations in Tiksi, Maslov v 1962 goes to work at Murmansk Shipping Company at nuclear icebreaker "Lenin", where he worked for the next 20 years as a radio operator, and then as the head of the radio station.
B 1967—1968when Maslov's icebreaker was at the docks for modernization, Vitaly Semyonovich, by that time already an experienced radio operator, took part in Antarctic of the expedition of the electric ship "Ob" as the head of the radio station.
Vitaly Semyonovich Maslov tried to write short stories and poems in his youth, but his work did not reach beyond the regional newspaper Sever. Maslov's first work published in the central press was the story "Blind", published under the title "Northern True Story" (in books this story is published under the title "In the Tundra") in 1968 in the all-Union literary journal "Change". Preface to the story written Semyon Shurtakov — teacher Literary Institute and Higher Literary Courses.
Maslov's next publication is his first novel Mutual Guarantee, published in 1977 all in the same Sever magazine. The novel received high marks, and on the recommendation of the writers Vasily Belova, Stanislav Pankratov and Viktor Konetsky Vitaly Semyonovich Maslov was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR.
The peak of the writer's career fell on the 70s - 80s. B 1973 for the story "Zyryanov Paper" and in 1985 for the essay "White Sea Throat" Maslov was awarded the literary prize named Alexander Podstanitsky. B 1978 the novel "Keeping Guarantee" wins the All-Union Competition named after Nikolai Ostrovsky and brings the writer an honorary diploma from the Union of Writers of the USSR and the Central Committee of the Komsomol. B 1985 for the victory of the novel "Internal Market" in the All-Union competition for the best work about the working class and the collective farm peasantry, Vitaly Maslov is awarded the prize of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the Union of Writers of the USSR, and in 1991 premium Union of Writers of Russia the book "Still Alive" is marked.
The works of V. S. Maslov depict the life of a northern village, original, with centuries-old roots, but being erased from the face of the earth politics in the 1960s and 70s. to eliminate "unpromising villages". The writer sees in this the tragedy of the Russian people. Creativity V.S. Maslova is the Arkhangelsk-White Sea offshoot of the Russian "village prose".
For books glorifying the beauty of the Russian North and the courage of the people living there, in 1996 president Yakutia together with the Writers' Union of Russia awards Vitaly Semyonovich with the Northern Star Prize. The last award is the award named Valentina Pikulya writer received in 1999.
Vitaly Semyonovich Maslov died December 9 2001 in Murmansk, at the age of 66, was buried in his homeland in the village of Semzha, Arkhangelsk region.
During his life, Vitaly Semyonovich Maslov held many important honorary posts: he was the first chairman of the Murmansk branch of the All-Russian Cultural Fund, was a member of the International Fund for Slavic Literature and Slavic Cultures, and secretary of the Murmansk regional organization of the Writers' Union of Russia. For his services, Vitaly Maslov was awarded the title honorary citizen of the city of Murmansk, honorary polar explorer, veteran of the nuclear icebreaker fleet and honorary radio operator of the USSR.
Maslov is one of the initiators of the re-creation in the USSR of the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, which was held for the first time in the Soviet era in Murmansk in 1986 (in 1990 it received state status); created the House of Memory in his native village of Semzha, where he collected the names of the villagers - 50 Semzha clans, up to 9 generations in each (1984).
In 1997, Maslov organized and led the International Orthodox Slavic procession Murman-Montenegro, held from October 4 to November 2 in honor of the 120th anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke.
B 1990 signed "Letter of the 74s".
