Voronin Alexander: Biography and Creativity

Fans of the author's song and modern poetry usually do not gather at large concert venues, they like forest glades and small halls. Voronin Alexander often meets with his admirers in urban libraries and small interest clubs. Today he is known as a promising poet, playwright, prose writer and editor of the publication "North".

Youth

Voronin Alexander was born in the Leningrad region, in Gatchina, but later his family moved to the Krasnodar Territory. Sasha received his school education there. For himself, Alexander chose the military profession. He studied at the Stavropol Military School and became a radio engineer. Service Voronin was in the missile troops.
He was distributed to the city of Glukhov, Sumy region. Later he only traveled from one military unit to another in this area. After Glukhov Alexander visited Lebedin and Romny. Voronin served in the armed forces for six years, after which he realized that he wanted something different from life.

Changing the scope of activity

It is rare to see a poet in a photo. Voronin Alexander, who became a reserve captain in 1989 and cardinally changed his life, decided to change his profession and entered the department of the Literary Institute named after Gorky, where the poets were preparing. However, very soon Alexander realized that it is difficult to write on the orders of professors. He throws the institute in the second year and does not return there even for documents.

Along with the attempt to become a student, Voronin joins the public organization "April", where writers who supported the idea of perestroika and the change of leadership in the USSR were members. In 1991 Alexander left for Karelia, and later moved to Petrozavodsk.

Poetry did not bring much money, so Alexander went by the way of an ordinary hard-working man. He worked first as an electronics engineer, and then changed several specialties: he was a surveyor, a rifleman of private security and an accountant-crawler in a housing department.

Voronin Alexander: creativity

Sometimes Alexander's work was connected with literature. In different years he worked as a journalist, editor of the poetry department, editor-in-chief of the literary almanac (there was no long-lived publication) and as a responsible secretary of the publishing center. Now he returned to his favorite business - he serves as editor of the poetry department in the online magazine "North" and releases his poems, which are popular not only in Russia but also abroad.

In 2009, Voronin Alexander became a laureate of the international competition in Vienna, as well as the best poet in 2011. Now he often visits thematic competitions and speaks to his admirers in small clubs and libraries. There he reads poetry from his collections, and also sings songs to an acoustic guitar. Alexander recorded several albums of the author's song, which listeners love for their sincerity. Often he shifts the poems of Pushkin, Gumilev, Yesenin to the music of the classics.

Alexander cooperates with his colleagues - authors from Petrozavodsk. They write down together and compose albums, speak at events. As a poet, Voronin tries himself in different genres: from traditional verses to hokku and other unusual forms.