Writers of East Kazakhstan
Antropov Yuri Vasilyevich (1937-2003 ) - writer, prose writer.
Born on December 18, 1937 in Leninogorsk (now the city of Ridder ), East Kazakhstan region . His father, a native of Altai, after the end of the war, which he went through from beginning to end, came to the old mine. The future writer at the age of 8 learned and fell in love with the difficult work of the miners. After graduating from high school, in 1955, Yu. Antropov entered the geological faculty of Moscow State University. As a geologist, he traveled almost the entire country, traveled many kilometers along the routes, but unexpectedly for everyone he left geology, and since 1967 his career begins.
professional work in literature. The first story "Position with Emotions" (1968), largely autobiographical, was awarded a diploma and a medal of the laureate of the literary competition. N. Ostrovsky. Following are the stories “Let's Sit on the Road”, “Living Roots”, “Week of the Defective Moon”, a number of stories. A real success was brought to Yu. Antropov in 1975 by the story “Before the Snow”, which shows the lively, contradictory character of a young man, a contemporary who is looking for his place in life. In 1977, the writer publishes his first novel, The Pass, about the hard work of drillers and geologists extracting water in the arid steppes of Kazakhstan. In the novel "Ivanovsky Ridge" (1977), the writer again focuses on the gaps in the spiritual life of working people. For the novels "Pass" and "Ivanovsky Ridge" Yu. Antropov was awarded the Prize. K. Fedina. The workers of the Rudny Altai are devoted to the story “Domestic Affairs” (published in the Prostor magazine in 1977), “The Year of the White Monkey”, “February 29”, in which the writer explores the spiritual world of a contemporary. In 1986, Yu. Antropov's new anti-war novel "Self-immolation" was published, in which the format of realistic prose, which is new for the author, alternates with journalistic reports, phantasmagoria and parable turns into a philosophical essay. Yu. Antropov's stories, short stories, and novels are generously populated with heroes who strive to make themselves and the world better, kinder, and more reliable. Yu. Antropov's literary heritage is also of interest to the modern reader.