Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»Ð¸Ð¹ Макарович
Шукшин; 25 July 1929 â€" 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian
writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altay region
who specialized in rural themes.Vasiliy Makarovich Shukshin was born
on 25 July 1929 to a peasant family in the village of Srostki in Altai
Krai, USSR, now Altai Krai, Russia. In 1933, his father, Makar
Leont'evich Shukshin, was arrested and executed during Soviet
collectivization. His mother, Maria Sergeyevna (née Popov), had to
look after the survival of the entire family. By 1943 Shukshin had
finished 7 years of village school and entered an automobile technical
school in Biysk. In 1945, after two and a half years at the school,
but before finishing, he quit to work in a kolkhoz.In 1946 Shukshin
left his native village and worked as a metal craftsman at several
enterprises in the trust Soyuzprommekhanizatsiya: at the turbine plant
in Kaluga, at the tractor plant in Vladimir, etc. In 1949, Shukshin
was drafted into the Navy. He first served as a sailor in the Baltic
Fleet, then a radio operator on the Black Sea. In 1953 he was
demobilized due to a stomach ulcer and returned to his native village.
Having passed an external exam for high school graduation, he became a
teacher of Russian, and later a school principal in Srostki.In 1954
Shukshin entered the directors department of the VGIK, studied under
Mikhail Romm and Sergei Gerasimov, and graduated in 1960. While
studying at VGIK in 1958, Shukshin had his first leading role in
Marlen Khutsiyev's film Two Fedors and appeared in the graduation film
by Andrei Tarkovsky. In 1958 Shukhin published his first short story
"Two on the cart" in the magazine Smena. His first collection of
stories Ð¡ÐµÐ»ÑŒÑ ÐºÐ¸Ðµ жители (Village Dwellers) was published
in 1963. That same year, he became staff director at the Gorky Film
Studio in Moscow. He wrote and directed ЖивÑ'Ñ‚ такой
парень (There Is This Lad). The film premiered in 1965, winning
top honours at the All-Union Film Festival in Leningrad and the Golden
Lion at the XVI International Film Festival in Venice. Shukshin was
decorated with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967), and was
designated Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR (1969).
Шукшин; 25 July 1929 â€" 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian
writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altay region
who specialized in rural themes.Vasiliy Makarovich Shukshin was born
on 25 July 1929 to a peasant family in the village of Srostki in Altai
Krai, USSR, now Altai Krai, Russia. In 1933, his father, Makar
Leont'evich Shukshin, was arrested and executed during Soviet
collectivization. His mother, Maria Sergeyevna (née Popov), had to
look after the survival of the entire family. By 1943 Shukshin had
finished 7 years of village school and entered an automobile technical
school in Biysk. In 1945, after two and a half years at the school,
but before finishing, he quit to work in a kolkhoz.In 1946 Shukshin
left his native village and worked as a metal craftsman at several
enterprises in the trust Soyuzprommekhanizatsiya: at the turbine plant
in Kaluga, at the tractor plant in Vladimir, etc. In 1949, Shukshin
was drafted into the Navy. He first served as a sailor in the Baltic
Fleet, then a radio operator on the Black Sea. In 1953 he was
demobilized due to a stomach ulcer and returned to his native village.
Having passed an external exam for high school graduation, he became a
teacher of Russian, and later a school principal in Srostki.In 1954
Shukshin entered the directors department of the VGIK, studied under
Mikhail Romm and Sergei Gerasimov, and graduated in 1960. While
studying at VGIK in 1958, Shukshin had his first leading role in
Marlen Khutsiyev's film Two Fedors and appeared in the graduation film
by Andrei Tarkovsky. In 1958 Shukhin published his first short story
"Two on the cart" in the magazine Smena. His first collection of
stories Ð¡ÐµÐ»ÑŒÑ ÐºÐ¸Ðµ жители (Village Dwellers) was published
in 1963. That same year, he became staff director at the Gorky Film
Studio in Moscow. He wrote and directed ЖивÑ'Ñ‚ такой
парень (There Is This Lad). The film premiered in 1965, winning
top honours at the All-Union Film Festival in Leningrad and the Golden
Lion at the XVI International Film Festival in Venice. Shukshin was
decorated with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967), and was
designated Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR (1969).
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