Patriot, writer, local historian Zavershinsky Vladimir Ivanovich

Zavershinsky Vladimir Ivanovich has a specialty rare for a writer: he is a professional scout. With operational work, he began his service in foreign intelligence. Then there were two long foreign business trips and the leading work in the Central Office of the SVR. Before the appointment by order of President of the Russian Federation V.Putin, Assistant Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Zavershinsky worked in the Foreign Intelligence Service as First Deputy Director. We respect. Appreciated. He was awarded many times, and not only Russian orders.

Scout-writer

Nevertheless, Vladimir Ivanovich did not change philology, profession in his first higher education: from his pen came a few historical studies. His long-standing passion is a numismatics: he collects coins minted in Russia at different times. And research and books are devoted to the history of the native land.

The story of the settlers

The author recreates the chronicle of his native village Tarutino (Chesmensky district of the former Orenburg, and now the Chelyabinsk region). Many people in the district, not indifferent to their native land, are known for their contemporary and author of scrupulous historical studies Zavershinsky Vladimir Ivanovich. "Notes of the local historian, in fact, are essays of a dispassionate chronicler and at the same time - deeply interested in the historical truth of man.

Readers are surprised to learn that immigrants are not at all an invention of Soviet power. The Russian Empire for several centuries encouraged the outflow of peasants from overpopulated lands to the empty lands and planned it. So the All-Union Committee on Resettlement created at the All-Union Central Committee in 1924 only continued the policy of stimulating the movement of the masses of people to the less developed areas. Vladimir Ivanovich traced the fate of the pioneers further and deeper, describing how they acquired a new small homeland in the Southern Urals, while retaining the characteristics of their culture.

The author of local history books Zavershinsky Vladimir Ivanovich recalls the old-timers' reminiscences about how a huge part of the peasants ready to move over canceled their decision when they realized that the resettlement policy was necessarily accompanied by collectivization.

South Ural Cossacks

But the Southern Urals is noticeable in the biography of the country not only by the formation of collective farms and by the preliminary dekulakization, but also by ... censuring. The topic is very close to Vladimir Zavershinsky. He described the history of the creation in 1918 of the first socialist Troitsky regiment of Red Cossacks named Stenka Razin, the biography and fate of his commanders Semyon Lovchikov and Alexander Kartashov. And then - the same actors and in the same place, but already in 1937. Repression. A loud case about the anti-Soviet activities of the local Cossack organization ...

Devotion to the Cossack family, to which Vladimir Konapshinsky himself belongs, is reflected in all his books on the history of the Cossacks. In particular, in the "Personal directory of members of the Orenburg Cossack regiment, awarded with state awards of the Russian Empire."

And all this against the backdrop of lyrical narrations about the Tarutine nature, its amazing and clean blue-eyed lakes, the windmills , sweeping and touching in their fragility and airiness , as well as expertly presented interesting and worthy people, famous residents of their native village, including His direct relatives are Zavershinsky.

Education of patriotism

Vladimir Ivanovich devoted the life of one of the most, in his opinion, patriotic professions, allowing one to feel involved in events of national importance. And his work Zavershinsky Vladimir pursues the same goal: fostering loyalty to his homeland, the desire to be useful to her.

He does not say: I'm a patriot, and you be it. In books, Vladimir Zavershinsky shares his knowledge about his native land, people living and living next to the reader, allows his heart to touch the beauties of his native land. By his own example, a local historian makes it clear and believes that every person is significant for the Fatherland.

He knows all his ancestors of many generations, if not in person, then by name and patronymic. The grandfather of Vladimir Ivanovich, Egor Zavershinsky, went to the Great Patriotic War Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge. Then sixty-odd years was listed as missing, until an insistent grandson found his footprints in the Chernigov region. It turned out that the Cossack Zavershinsky died in September 1943 during the crossing of the Dnieper.