Evgeny Nosov is a Soviet writer with an interesting biography. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as a gunner, and after the war completely devoted himself to literary creation, leaving behind a lot of interesting works.
Nosov was born into a large family, whose head was a hereditary blacksmith who worked as a mechanic at the plant.
In his early childhood Nosov often had to hunt, fish and collect herbs that could be sold to help his father feed his family.
When Eugene Nosov was 16 years old, Kursk, where he lived with his family, occupied German troops. After eight years of schooling, he went to the front and became a gunner.
Victory Day, Nosov met in the hospital, as he was seriously wounded in the battles near Koenigsberg a few months before the end of the war – the future writer was turned over by his shoulder and shoulder blade.
Nosov graduated from high school only after returning from the front.
The situation of the Nosov family after the war was disastrous, so immediately after school exams he went to Kazakhstan after his beloved and future wife Valentina.
In Kazakhstan, Nosov settled into a local newspaper, but soon he was noticed by his editorial talent. Becoming a correspondent, he took the first step on the way to a career as a writer.
Since 1951, the writer headed various departments of the editorial board of the Kursk newspaper – he wrote about youth, Komsomol members and life in the village.
In the 80s, Nosov was a member of the editorial board of Roman-Gazeta.
In the winter cold, the writer hung around the city ads with the call to save birds from hunger. Even at his grave Nosov ordered to remove this inscription: “Feed the birds.”
Three years after the death of Nosov, in a park not far from the high-rise building where he lived, they erected a monument to the writer.
Nosov’s works, with rare exceptions, can be divided into two categories: prose about war or about village life.
The first story of Nosov, “Rainbow”, was published when the author was 32 years old.
To get a literary education, in the early 1960s Nosov graduated from the capital Higher Literary Courses.
Nosov’s works were successfully published in the largest Soviet journals – Our World, Ogonyok and Sovremennik.
Nosov’s works formed the basis for scenarios of several films, as well as one film-performance.
For his military and creative services, Nosov was awarded eight orders, two medals and more than a dozen prestigious prizes.
From 1995 until his death in 2002, Nosov received a special pension, appointed by the President of the Russian Federation. At the time of death, the writer was 77 years old.
Evgeny Nosov is an honorary citizen of Kursk.
Nosov spent his whole life with his beloved wife. The couple had two children – a son and a daughter.
Nosov was a secretary and a member of the board of the Writers’ Union of the USSR.
Friends and relatives Nosov remember that he was an excellent storyteller, able to captivate and laugh any listener.
