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Lagunov Konstantin Yakovlevich

Konstantin Yakovlevich Lagunov, a famous Tyumen writer, was born on September 16th, in 1924 in a large village of Staraya Maina, Ulyanovsk region. Childhood

The writer's childhood passed in the village of Malozorkaltsevo, Tobolsk region. He studied at the secondary school in the village Golyshmanovo, Tyumen region, from what he graduated several days before the war. He was not drafted into the army because of poor eyesight, and from July 1941 he began his career.

Early career
He worked as a teacher and then as director of Golyshmanovo’s children’s home. From 1942 to 1956, he was a liberated Komsomol worker, including in Lithuania and Tajikistan. No matter how busy he was in Komsomol, in 1950 Lagunov graduated from the Pedagogical Institute of Tyumen.

Beginning of the writer's career
Since 1956, he was seriously engaged in creative writings: he edited the newspapers Komsomolets of Tajikistan, the almanac Literary Tajikistan, the republican magazine Guliston, and wrote the first books. In 1958 in Dushanbe there was a story "My path", followed by a book of essays "Only forward." In 1959, K. Lagunov was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. At the same time, he was engaged in science, completing correspondence postgraduate study at the University of Tajikistan, defending his doctoral thesis on history. In 1961 he came to Tyumen. For two years he headed the Tyumen Book Publishing House and for twenty years (from 1963 to 1983) he was the executive secretary of the Tyumen Regional Writers' Organization. He created a whole school of creative seminars that helped many people to enter an independent writing path. He was a member of the journal editorial boards, was a member of the boards of the USSR and the RSFSR.

3 stages of the creative revolution

On the first stage (Tajik) there was an accumulation of skill (the story "By My Path", 1958, the novel "The Morning of the Golden Valley", 1961).

The second stage is mainly connected with the chronicle of the oil and gas epic, the affirmation of all the positive things that happened at that time. Novels of Lagunov "Ordaliya" (1970), "Obsessed" (1974), "Shore is very cool" (1979) full of bright and impressive pictures of Siberian nature, characters with solid tempers whose strength and will move events. Without reducing the working heroism of

the pioneers, in the 1970s and 1980s K.Ya. Lagunov already talked about the contradictions of development, the moral price of victories. In 1966, in Sverdlovsk his novel "It Was" was published. It is about the life of the village in the Ural region during difficult war years. In 1978, the same Central Urals publishing house published the novel "Red Cocks", dedicated to the peasants’ war of 1921.

The third stage of creativity was in the early 1980s. The spiritual, moral and philosophical attitude to the present, the social criticism of many aspects of reality came to the fore. The new works of Lagunov (The Bronze Dog, 1982, Breakfast on the Grass, 1987) come to the reader with great delay, overcoming the prohibitions of the powerful of this world. The full chronicle of the West Siberian peasant uprising "And the snow falls heavily" appeared only in 1994. ("Twenty first", 1991). A year earlier in the Surgut came the story "Irinarkh" - about the rector of the Obdorsk Mission, an educator of the people of the Far North in the 1990s XIX century.

For the first time in the history of regional culture, he wrote a book about contemporary Tyumen literature "Portraits without retouching" (1994). He analyzed local promotional writing in the textbook "Through Golgotha to Olympus" (1995). In 1996 Lagunov impressed many people with the publication of the epic "Denial of Negation" - the history of the province was comprehended by him for several centuries. Acute modern problems, a new round of the battle of good and evil are shown in the novels "Extraction of the Devil" (1997) and "Absurd" (1998), these works were included in the new (1999) book of the writer. In the same year, the publishing house of the State University of Tyumen issued a three-volume collection of K. Lagunov.

Besides 12 novels that have become Russian classics, stories, novels, poems, dramatic works are written. Publicistic heritage is rich. According to the novels "It Was", "Red Cocks", "Obsessed", performances were staged in the Theatre of Drama of Tyumen. The book "Obsessed" has been optioned as a movie "In the winds of taiga ."

K.Ya.Lagunov is known as a children's writer. The children like his novels and fairy-tales "The Town on the Mount" (1969), Romka-Ramazan (1977), Romka, Fomka and Artos (1984) and others. Books of K.Ya. Lagunov (more than fifty!) are published and republished by capital and many peripheral publishing houses, are translated into many languages of the nations of the world. The circulation of children's books has increased to 1 million.

Konstantin Yakovlevich was long and firmly associated with the State University of Tyumen. In 1992 he founded the chair of journalism and headed it for 5 years.

Immersing yourself in an interesting and difficult work with young people, he led the only creative workshop in the country, during which the first books of his wards were born.

For many years of long and distinguished work in the Komsomol, for great merit in the development of literature, Konstantin Yakovlevich was awarded with the Order of Friendship of People, the "Sign of Honor", and many other medals. K.Ya. Lagunov is a academician of the provincial academy, honorary citizen of Tyumen, (1994), Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation (1995), winner of many prizes, awarded with a gold medal of the State University of Tyumen "For Outstanding service".

... He passed away during his work on the novel about the present fathers and children, about the terrible, generalized narcotization of young people. He was buried on July 21, 2001 at the Chervishevsky Cemetery in Tyumen. In memory of this great man, the Union of Journalists established a prize for the name of K.Ya. Lagunov "Publicist of the Year."