Valery Kastryuchin - biography and creativity

Today we will tell you who Valery Kastryuchin is. Our hero was born in 1952, on January 26, in the Kiev region, the city of Fastov. Comes from a family of workers. Russian by nationality.

Parents

The father of the future writer, Arkady Nikanorovich, comes from the Novosibirsk region, the indigenous Siberian. During the Great Patriotic War he served in the Navy. I received many military awards. The mother of our hero, Lyudmila Iosifovna, comes from the town of Fastov, a Ukrainian. Her maiden name is Dovgart. The family did not stay long in one place. Valery Kastryuchin with his parents went to the circumpolar Vorkuta, then to the Altai Territory, later to Kazakhstan. As a result, the family was again in Ukraine. Later, our hero with his parents was in Belarus. It was in 1961.

Education

Valery Kastryuchin studied at the Belarusian secondary school. He entered the philological faculty of Baku State University named after VI Lenin. I chose the Belarusian-Russian branch. After graduation at the university (in 1975) he taught Russian language and literature in a rural school. Valery Arkadyevich Kastruchin was a correspondent for the republican newspaper Zorka, publications for teenagers and children. Received the post of senior editor of the programs of the Belarusian Television. He also worked on the creation of the republican children's magazine Kacheli.

Literary Activity

Valery Kastryuchin began to create works in school years. In 1968 he published the first work in the Belarusian edition of Vesyolka. His children's stories were regularly published on the pages of local magazines and newspapers.

In 1975 the first book of our hero - "Berezkin's clothes" - was published. Later he published his works "Wonderful Islands", "Fairy Tales of the Forest Glade", "Elk Mushroom". In 2006, with the blessing of Metropolitan Filaret, a book of children's verses "The Heavenly Bell" was published. The work was reissued in 2008.

The book "Fairy Tales of the Forest Glade" has been updated several times already. It was republished in a mass circulation. In 2003, this book was released in Kiev in Ukrainian translation. Also, her audio version was released. In 2010, the book was translated and published in Poland as a gift edition.

Together with Vladimir Tsvetkov created three works in the genre of fiction: "Travelers in Time", "Fantastic Odyssey", "Adventures in the Valley of Five Winds."

Recently, the writer continues to publish children's stories. In particular, books were published in various publishing houses: "The Forest Child", "Thanks Deer", "Fairy Tales of the Magic Garden", "Fly, Butterfly".

In 2013, the publishing house "Buckmaster" published 16 books of our hero. All of them entered the series "A Forest Full of Miracles". Among them there were such works as "Borkino Mountain", "Strawberry Glade", "Green Notebook", "Tale of Soma's Soma", "How to Wake up Mikhail", "Kolyusha-fyrkusha", "Pike-Zlyuka", "What Sings a cricket "," Fears of a rabbit Pulka "," Sunny flower "," Yulkin a gift ".

The author continued cooperation with the same publishing house. Thanks to this in 2012-2014 came out a gift series "Tales of animals."

The works of our hero were printed in a variety of collections. His stories and fairy tales were translated into Serbian, Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages. Our hero since 1980 is in the Union of Journalists. Lives in Minsk. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Union of Belarusian Writers.

More about the works

Incredibly fascinating series of fairy tales of our hero was called "Tales of birds and animals". The writer within the framework of this collection narrates about animals. In particular, in the book "The Red Tooth" Kastryuchin Valery told about the brave Belchonka, who miraculously managed to escape from the fire in the forest. Together with his sister and mother, he crossed the river. The work is designed for children of school age.

Also worth mentioning is a collection of a writer called "The Forest Child". It included 12 stories on the theme of nature. All works are united by a common thought. Its essence is to show the fine line between the soul of man and nature.

Also, the pen of our hero belongs to the book "The Heavenly Bell". In it, the reader will go to the edge of the forest. There he will hear a magical flute sounding in a birch-white grove, and get acquainted with each of the 12 months.

The author also created the book "Yellow River". It includes two sections: "On an island of three pines" and "Forest windows". The first consists of fairy tales, the second - from stories. The book is designed for school-age children.

The writer liked first of all his stories about nature.