Fedor Samokhin

Fedor Samokhin
Native name	Фёдор Иванович Самохин
Born	Fedor Ivanovich Samokhin (1918-02-12)12 February 1918 Second Don District, Don Host Oblast, Russian Soviet Republic
Died	17 July 1992(1992-07-17) (aged 74) Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Occupation	prose writer
Language	Russian, Kyrgyz
Nationality	Russian
Genre	Prose
Literary movement	Lieutenant prose, village Prose
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Fyodor Ivanovich Samokhin (Template:Lang-ru; 12 February 1918 – 17 July 1992) was a Soviet-Russian novelist, member of the Union of writers of the USSR (since 1958). One of the representatives of "village" and "lieutenant" prose.

The author of a number of works of art about the Great Patriotic War, the most famous of which was the story "Cholponbai" about the heroism of the Hero of the Soviet Union Cholponbai Tuleberdiev, which went through several reprints. For his merits in the field of fiction and for his active participation in the propaganda and development of Kyrgyz Soviet literature, he was awarded three Honorary Diplomas of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR.

Biography

The prose writer Fyodor Ivanovich Samokhin was born in the Verkhne-Sadovsky farm Don Host Oblast of the Russian Soviet Republic in the family of a poor peasant. In 1940 he graduated from the Nizhne-Chirskaya secondary school. In 1944 he studied at the courses for newspaper workers in Moscow; in the same year he joined the ranks of the CPSU(b).

He began his career in 1934 as an accountant at his native collective farm, from 1940 to 1942 he worked as a senior accountant at the Nizhne-Chirskiy fish station. From 1942 to 1943 Fyodor Ivanovich was a member of the Bureau of the Nizhne-Chirskiy Underground Komsomol District Committee, was a scout for a partisan detachment, and was seriously wounded. After the liberation of this region from occupation, he was appointed editor of the regional newspaper "Kolkhoznik Dona" (Collective farmer of the Don); there were also published the first stories of Fedor Samokhin "Na perekate" (On the roll), "Garmon'" (Harmonic), "Provody" (Seeing off). From 1945 he was a correspondent for "Komsomolskaya Pravda", from 1946 — a literary worker, head of the department of the newspaper "Leninskaya smena" in the city of Alma-Ata, and from 1947 to 1949 — a special correspondent for the newspaper "Kommunist" (Jambyl Region). From 1949 he lived and worked in Frunze. From 1949 to 1961, he was a literary officer, head of a department in the editorial office of the newspaper "Komsomolets Kirghizii" (Komsomolets of Kyrgyzstan), from 1961 to 1963 — a literary employee in the editorial office of the journal "Bloknot agitatora" (Agitator notebook).

He took up literary work in 1944. The first book of the writer was the story "Razvedchitsa Klavdiya Panchishkina" (Scout Claudia Panchishkina), published in 1952 in Volgograd. The creative theme is the heroic deed of Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War — immigrants from Kyrgyzstan. A special place among the works created by the writer was occupied by the story "Cholponbai", published for the first time in 1958 by the publishing house "Molodaya Gvardiya", dedicated to the immortal feat of the Hero of the Soviet Union Cholponbai Tuleberdiev; in the same year he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR and received recognition in the literary society of Kyrgyzstan. I got acquainted with writers, poets and other cultural figures such as Aaly Tokombaev, Chingiz Aitmatov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Tendik Askarov, Ayim Aytbaeva, Margarita Agashina, Sergey Fiksin, Nikolai Chekmenyov, Musa Dzhangaziev, Yakub Zemlyak and others. Took part in the translation and publication of the collection of works by Kyrgyz front-line writers "Zveni, komuz!" (Link, komuz!) (1985).

In 1992, after a long illness, Fyodor Ivanovich Samokhin died in Bishkek.

Creative activity

Fyodor Samokhin (1960)

The beginning of his professional writing activity is considered 1949 and the beginning of work in the newspaper "Komsomolets Kirghizii" (Komsomolets of Kyrgyzstan). Fyodor Samokhin did not have both legs and moved on prostheses, but he nevertheless often travelled a lot around the republic, got acquainted with interesting people — livestock breeders of Susamyr, builders of the Toktogul hydroelectric power station, oil workers from Izbaskent, cotton growers of Aravan, hydrologists of Orto-Tokoy and the fishermen of Issyk-Kul, the miners of Kyzyl-Kiya and the beet growers of the Kemin valley, who later became heroes of his works such as the stories "Dom moyego ottsa" (My father's house), "Tri ostrova" (Three islands), "Rodina, ya vernus'!" (Homeland, I'll be back!) and "Chuiskiye razlivy" (Chuyskie spills).

The main theme of Fyodor Ivanovich's creativity was the theme of the exploits of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. His first literary work in this field was the story "Razvedchitsa Klavdiya Panchishkina" (Scout Claudia Panchishkina) about a fighter of the partisan detachment of the Nizhne-Chirsky region. A special place in this series is occupied by the story "Cholponbai", which has gone through several reprints and received many reviews, including from literary critic and Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic Tendik Askarov. The story was written for the 40th anniversary of the Komsomol and published by the Kyrgyz State Publishing House and an abridged version of the "Molodaya Gvardiya". When writing it, Fyodor Samokhin visited the homeland of Cholponbai Tuleberdiev, traveled to the places of battles in which he took part, met in person, and got acquainted by correspondence with his friends and associates. Other works of the author on the theme of war were the stories "Malchik iz Stalingrada" (Boy from Stalingrad) and "Don — reka partizanskaya" (Don is a partisan river).

In the work of Fyodor Ivanovich, essays also used the predominant direction. One of the works in this genre, entitled "Krov'yu serdtsa" (By the blood of the heart), was published in the collection of works by Soviet Kyrgyz writers "Geroyi surovykh let" (Heroes of the harsh years). The book also includes the works of Aaly Tokombayev, Chingiz Aitmatov, Sooronbai Zhusuev and other writers. The essay was also included in the collection entitled "Molodye geroyi Velikhoy Otechestvennoy voyny" (Young heroes of the Great Patriotic War), compiled by Vasil Bykov.

A family

In 1947 he was married to Samokhina (Koroneva) Raisa Ilinichna. The Samokhin family had three children — a daughter and two sons. Daughter Victoria died of a serious illness, son Vladimir died under tragic circumstances in 1969 in the Tien-Shan Mountain, the second son Aleksey lives in the Russian Far East.

Works

Selected editions

• "Razvedchik Klavdiya Panchishkina" (Volgograd, 1952)
• "Malchik iz Stalingrada" ("Regional book publishing", 1954)
• "Cholponbai":

1. "Cholponbai" ("Kyrgyz State Publishing House", 1958)
2. "Cholponbai" ("Molodaya Gvardiya", 1958)
3. "Cholponbai" ("Mektep", 1982)

• "Dom moyego ottsa" ("Kyrgyz State Publishing House", 1963)
• "Chuiskiye razlivy" ("Kyrgyzstan", 1968)
• "Rodina, ya vernus'!" ("Kyrgyzstan", 1975)

Collections of stories and short stories

• "Izbrannoe" ("Kyrgyzstan", 1978)
• "Povesti i rasskazy" ("Kyrgyzstan", 1988)

Publications as part of collections

• "Geroyi surovykh let" ("Kyrgyzstan", 1968)
• "Molodye geroyi Velikhoy Otechestvennoy voyny" ("Molodaya Gvardiya", 1970)
• "S perom i avtomatom" ("Mektep", 1975)
• "His feat is immortal ..." ("Uluu toolor", 2014)

Honours

• Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
• Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
• Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Badge "25 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War"
• Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Three certificates of honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR.

Bibliography

• Samaganov, Jenbai (1969). Writers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan (biobibliographic reference). Frunze: Kyrgyzstan.
• Botoyarov, K. (1989). Writers of Soviet Kyrgyzstan (biobibliographic reference). Frunze: Adabiyat. ISBN 5-660-00084-3.

External links

Samokhin's books in the British Library