Nikolay Zadornov. Zadornov, Nikolai Pavlovich From the biography of Nikolai Zadornov

Zadornov Nikolay Pavlovich (1909 - 1992) he lived only nine years in the Far East, but he went down in the history of literary life as a true Far Eastern writer, who devoted all his work to the Far East; historian and researcher of the era of the development of the eastern outskirts of Russia by the Russian people.

NP Zadornov was born in Penza on December 5, 1909 in the family of a veterinarian. Having worked in Central Asia for the prescribed period after graduating from the Kazan Veterinary University (having served "his scholarship"), his father moved with his family to Siberia. Here, in Chita, the future writer spent his childhood. He witnessed the events of the civil war, the battle near Chita, saw a baggage car with a gold reserve. At the age of ten he got acquainted with the books of N. M. Przhevalsky, the newly published book of V. K. Arsenyev "Across the Ussuri region." By the age of fourteen he was carried away by the theater, played in school plays; without leaving school, he entered a professional theater. Love for art passed from his parents, whose idol was V.E. Meyerhold in Penza. They told their son a lot about the theatrical life of Penza, the first roles of the future famous Soviet director.

After graduating from school, N.P. Zadornov continued his theatrical activities. After three years of work at the Siberian Experimental Theater, he entered the troupe of the Ufa City Theater. The beginning of his journalistic activity in the newspapers of Beloretsk in the Urals, Ufa dates back to this time. He writes about gold mines, oil fields, miners. In the summer of 1937 he brought his story “Mogusyumka and Guryanich” to the publishing house “Soviet Writer” in Moscow. Having registered at the acting labor exchange and having received an invitation to the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, NP Zadornov in the fall of 1937 with the last steamer appears in the young city. He works as the head of the literary department of the Komsomolsk Drama Theater and at the same time plays in performances. On theatrical posters and programs of the 1930s. you can find his last name among the performers of roles in the plays of N. Pogodin: Volzhanin in "The Man with a Gun" (1938), the conductor of the carriage in "Pavel Grekov" (1939), the Japanese in "The Serebryanaya Pad" (1939), the philistine in the play "How the steel was tempered "based on the novel by N. Ostrovsky (1939). Many years later, NP Zadornov, who has already become a famous writer, will again meet with the theater of his youth at rehearsals of the play staged based on his novel "Cupid Father".

In addition to working in the theater, N.P. Zadornov led a Red Army literary circle, traveled a lot, wrote essays for a city newspaper. From the first meeting, the Far East amazed the future writer: “Taiga ... seemed untouched, as if people were taking some small part of its wealth. Far Eastern rivers are clean and transparent. The foliage has fallen, and red twigs are visible everywhere - on the slopes against the background of the blue sky. The sun was setting in this red thicket. We saw the footprints of animals, ”he wrote in his autobiography. An eyewitness to how a modern city grew on the site of the remote village of Permskoye, he could not help but turn to the past, to those who were the first to come to the banks of the great river. “I understood that the past was leaving, that soon everything would change, and no one would see archery or spear hunting anymore. No one will tell you how the first bread was sown. I tried to see as much as possible. " In the nearest villages, where on foot, where on boats and boats, he traveled on his own and on the instructions of the editorial board of the newspaper "Amur Shockman", entering the Nanai camps, in Russian villages meeting with the descendants of the pioneers, and somewhere else by the participants in the resettlement collecting material for a planned book about the first Russian settlers who came to these places on rafts, with their families, to explore these vast spaces. The first volume of the novel "Cupid-Father" was published in the city of Khabarovsk in the last pre-war issues of the magazine "On the Border" (1941. - No. 2, 3). Two books of the novel were published in a separate edition in Dalgiz in 1944, republished in Moscow in 1946. After that, the novel was reprinted many times, translated into many languages of the world.

After 30 years, the writer will again turn to the heroes of his first novel, create its sequel - the novel "The Gold Rush" (1970). Already familiar heroes, their children, who have adapted to local conditions, act in it; new faces appear, new heroes, whose fates are intertwined with those of the settlers.

During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Pavlovich worked as a traveling correspondent of the regional radio committee, staying to live in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The regional radio committee gave him complete freedom of action in the search for materials. Over the years, he wrote 200 essays for the regional newspaper and regional radio about workers and engineers of the city of youth, heroes of the labor front in other cities and villages of the region, about railway workers, builders, aviators. In 1944 he was admitted to the USSR Writers' Union.

In the fall of 1945, NP Zadornov, together with other Far Eastern writers, took part as a correspondent for the Khabarovsk regional branch of TASS in the Manchurian liberation campaign together with the troops of the Far Eastern fronts. He traveled a lot in Manchuria and other cities in China, met with different people, Chinese partisans, talked with captured Japanese colonels and generals. What he saw and experienced during the war was later reflected in historical novels about the expedition of Admiral Putyatin to Japan.

Working on the novel "Cupid Father", NP Zadornov hatched the idea of another novel - a book about Captain G. I. Nevelskoy. In the article “How I worked on my books” NP Zadornov writes: “The personality of Nevelskoy interested me very much. He acted as an advanced person, as a patriot and thinker, who clearly sees the future of his homeland, which is in close connection with all the great countries lying in the Pacific Ocean. ... his expedition, in terms of its significance, was more important than all the previously accomplished expeditions to the East and North of our homeland. " On small ships and boats, a motor-sailing ship repeated N.P. Zadornov the path of a naval explorer, made a circle of travels to the places where Russian sailors made their discoveries. To fulfill the plan, other knowledge was needed, which was impossible to obtain far from the center of the country. “You had to know the old society, the navy, customs, naval classes of educational institutions where our discoverers were brought up,” he explains the reason for his departure.

In 1946 N.P. Zadornov left the Far East. At first he lived in Moscow, from 1948 until the end of his life - in Riga. But I came here many times. The new topic required a thorough study of historical and archival materials, numerous sea expeditions of the author himself, most of which repeated the routes of voyages and campaigns of the heroes of his books. Twenty-five years of work from the concept to its implementation ended in 1962 with the creation of a cycle of novels about GI Nevelskoy, three of which: "The First Discovery", "Captain Nevelskoy", "War for the Ocean", constitute a single work. The fourth novel, "Distant Land", stands alone, it is a kind of introduction to the Amur epic. “Distant Land” began with the story “Mangmu”, written in 1940 and telling about the life of the Nanai before the appearance of the Russian people on the Amur. Subsequently, it became the first part of the novel, the second part of which "Markeshkino's rifle" was completed by the author in 1948. The novels were published in Moscow, Khabarovsk, Riga as they were written, and were well received. In 1952, their author was awarded the State Prize.

Working on novels, N.P. Zadornov did not disregard the literary life of Riga. On his initiative, a section of Russian writers was created in the Writers' Union of Latvia, which he headed. He collected and attracted talented young people, gave lectures on literature, was the first editor of the literary and publicistic magazine "Parus", which published works of Latvian authors in Russian. He was engaged in translations of his novels into Latvian. He translated the Latvian novel "Clearance in the Clouds" by A. Upita. A. Fadeev gave a brilliant review of the translation of the novel.

In the 1965-1970s. NP Zadornov is working on a new historical theme: the expedition of Admiral E. V. Putyatin to the shores of Japan for the establishment of Russian-Japanese trade, economic and diplomatic relations. One after another came out the novels: "Tsunami" (1972), "Shimoda" (1980), "Heda" (1980). In search of materials for his works, Nikolai Pavlovich twice visited Japan, lived in the village of Heda, went on a fishing ship to the foot of Mount Fujiyama, where Admiral E.V. Putyatin died, sailed on a ship to Hong Kong. The trilogy, later united under the general title "The Saga of the Russian Argonauts", was received with great interest not only by Russian readers, but also by the masters of Japanese literature as a completely original phenomenon. In Tokyo, the books were published by the Asahi publishing house.

In subsequent years, the novels "Hong Kong" (1982), "Lady of the Seas" (1988) were written and published, opening a new cycle of the writer's works about the relations between Russia and Great Britain in the Far Eastern seas at the end of the 19th century. The Wind of Fertility was the last published novel by the writer (1992), plotting a continuation of the theme raised in the novel The Lady of the Seas. The writer's plans were to create a novel about Vladivostok, the working title of which is "Rich Mane". The novel remained unfinished. The writer died on June 18, 1992.

N.P. Zadornov wrote works on contemporary themes, but his fame and name were brought to him by his historical novels, with which he drew attention to the Russian Far East, its history. Thanks to them, readers of Russia, the CIS countries and foreign countries were able to get acquainted with the history of the development of the Far Eastern territories, the discoverers of the Amur lands. “With everything I have written, I tried to make up for our historical illiteracy. There are a lot of layers, ambiguities in Russia's relations with its eastern neighbors, it is very important to know how everything was in reality, how they developed in reality, what they led to and what they are leading to, ”he answered the question“ Why such a persistent addiction to history? ...

Historical novels by NP Zadornov over the years do not lose their relevance and interest. This is evidenced by the facts of the reprint of his books. They are still published by various publishing houses in the country. So, in 2007 in the Moscow publishing houses "Veche", "Terra-Book Club" his novels "Cupid Father", "Gold Rush", "Shimoda" and others were published. In 2008, with the book of N. P. Zadornov "Cupid Father" opened a new series "Literary heritage of the Amur region".

On May 29, 1999 in Khabarovsk, on the Amur embankment, a monument to the writer was unveiled by the architect V. Baburin; a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the drama theater in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Distant land

Peace-loving and friendly natives of the Amur region, Samara and Gilyaks, are forced to constantly defend themselves against cruel and greedy neighbors - the Chinese and Manchus.

And then there's a new misfortune knocking on their homes: missionaries by hook or by crook are trying to impose incomprehensible laws and orders on the Amur citizens.

The taiga would have disappeared, but, fortunately, Locha came to the rescue - Russian settlers and Cossacks ...

Captain Nevelskoy

A novel about the first Russian expedition to Kamchatka and the Amur under the leadership of Captain Nevelskoy, who played a huge role in the study of the Far East.

Traveler and scientist, diplomat and naval commander, selfless defender of the interests of the Russian state.

Around him unfolds the action of the novel about the complex and dramatic story of the development and settlement of the mouth of the Amur by Russian people.

War over the ocean

Peru Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov, a famous Russian writer, owns two cycles of historical novels about the exploits of explorers and the development of the Far East in the 19th century.

The fate of the second expedition along the Amur, the active development of the Pacific coast of North America, the heroic defense of Kamchatka from the Anglo-French squadron back in 1854 became the basis of the novel "War for the Ocean", chronologically continuing the chain of events described in the novel "Captain Nevelsky".

War over the ocean. Volume one

Nikolay Zadornov is famous among readers for his novels in the genre of historical adventures.

In this novel, the author continues to talk about a series of events that began in the book "Captain Nevelsky". Readers will learn about the adventures of Chikhachev's group, which went on an expedition across the Amur, and about the fate of the Russian-American company, which sent them to the coast of North America.

War over the ocean. Volume two

Nikolai Zadornov managed to create amazing novels dedicated to the development of the Russian Far East, as well as about the adventures of explorers.

The book "War for the Ocean" continues to delight readers with the wanderings of the main characters, telling about further events. In it you will learn the history of the second expedition across the Amur, headed by N. M. Chikhachev. And also about the development by the Russian-American company of the Pacific coast of North America ...

You will learn about all these fascinating travels on the pages of this book….

Admiral Putyatin

Tsunami

The glorious history of the development of the Far Eastern lands is described in the novel "Tsunami".

Admiral E.V. Putyatin on the frigate "Diana" in December 1854 went to the shores of Japan.

The history of the Far East and the Russian fleet, thoroughly studied by Nikolai Zadornov, will be especially interesting for those who are fond of Russian history.

Shimoda

The novel "Shimoda" continues the story of the heroic adventures of Russian sailors, Admiral Putyatin, who found themselves in Japan after an unprecedented disaster and the death of a frigate.

A country closed from the outside world, which did not allow foreigners to enter its territory.

The action takes place during the Crimean War in 1855.

Heda

The life of Russian sailors in Japan after the crash of the frigate "Diana" is extremely interesting and unusual.

Their return to their homeland will be long and difficult, where they will face new tests on the battlefields of the Crimean War.

But the adventure continues ...

Hong Kong

The novel "Hong Kong" ends the cycle of works by Nikolai Zadornov, dedicated to the mission of Admiral Putyatin.

In the middle of the 19th century, Evfimy Putyatin went to Japan on a frigate to establish diplomatic relations with the imperial house.

Not all sailors were able to return home on a newly built ship. Some sailed later, were captured by the British and were forced to stay in Hong Kong until the end of the Crimean campaign ...

Siberiade

Cupid Father

The past of the Amur region, the difficult living conditions of the first Russian peasants who settled in the taiga lands, the development of the wild and harsh nature, friendship with local peoples ...

All these events became the basis for Nikolai Zadornov's writing of the novel "Cupid Father".

In 1952, the work was awarded the USSR State Prize.

Golden fever

At the end of the 19th century, gold deposits were discovered on the tributaries of the Amur. Peasants, driven by poverty and want, sometimes went to the taiga forests in whole villages to wash the precious metal.

So, in the depths of the Amur region, the first "fraternal republics" arose, in which their own orders, rules, laws were established, and rulers were elected. Some even challenged the royal power and entered into open confrontation.

The life of one of these "republics" will be discussed in the novel "Gold Rush".

First discovery

In the middle of the 19th century, the French Jesuit messengers are active in intelligence activities in the Far East, hiding behind a noble goal - "to convert wild people to the true faith."

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The outstanding Far Eastern writer Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov has been working on the topic of the Far East all his life. He was born in Penza on December 5, 1909. The writer's childhood and school years came to Chita, where the Zadornov family lived. Since childhood, he has touched history. I saw the Japanese occupation, lived in the city, which was given life by the exiled Decembrists.

At school, he was the organizer of the propaganda theater. In the early years of Soviet power, it was considered revolutionary and very modern. After finishing the 8th grade, Zadornov was sent by his father to his homeland, to Penza. Without leaving school, in the last academic year Nikolai began working in a professional theater, where he was given small weekend roles. After graduating from school in 1926, he became a professional actor. He traveled with the theater to many cities in Siberia and the Far East; his work in Vladivostok was especially successful.

He tried his hand at journalism. 1937 was a significant year for Nikolai Pavlovich. His first story "Mogusyumka and Guryanich" appears in print. And later he moved to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the city of the first builders, with which Zadornov will have nine years of life.

In the city of his youth, he began to work as the head of the literary section of the theater and at the same time collaborated in the local city newspaper and on the radio, led a circle of warrior-builders. Plays about the Far Eastern border were played at the Komsomolsk Theater. They were then staged in the best theaters in the capital and throughout the country. In 1939. for playing the role of a Japanese in N. Pogodin's play "The Silver Fall" Zadornov received a commendation and a certificate from the command of the corps of military construction units, and in 1940. was awarded and received a gratitude from the directorate for the work on the preparation of the play "The Man with the Gun".

The literary association of Komsomolsk, having decided to publish a collection about the history of the city of youth, instructed Zadornov to write an essay about the village of Permskoe. The search for material led him to the 60s of the last century, when Russian peasants came to the Far East. The resettlement participants who came to the Amur with their children still lived in Komsomolsk at that time. Their memory kept interesting information about the past. This is how the novel "Cupid the Father" was born, the first part of which was published in 1940. In Khabarovsk, where the author took his work, they managed to print the novel in the second and third issues of the magazine "On the Turn" in 1941, before the start of the Great Patriotic War.

More than half a century later, in 1997, the Far Eastern writer Vsevolod Petrovich Sysoev, in one of his speeches about the construction of a monument to Zadornov in Khabarovsk, said: “Few people manage to write an eternal book that is republished all over the world. Nikolai Pavlovich wrote such a book, this is "Cupid Father" - the best book about Cupid. ”At the same time, the story“ Mangmu ”was written - from the life of the Nanais at a time when only sparsely populated, disunited clans lived in the region. During the war, while staying to live in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Zadornov became the author of 200 essays about the heroes of the labor front for the regional Radio Committee.

In 1944. Nikolai Pavlovich was accepted as a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. A year or two before this event, the writer conceived a novel about Nevelskoy. In search of heroes for his essays on the workers of the Sea of Okhotsk, Zadornov traveled a lot across the Far East to the places where Russian sailors made their discoveries. The writer was more and more interested in the personality of the admiral.

Nikolai Pavlovich saw in the Russian admiral an advanced patriot and thinker, who clearly imagined the future of his homeland as a country that is in close connection with all the great countries that lay in the Pacific Ocean. “There was no proper respect for such scientists as Nevelskoy,” he believed. They were clearly hated by the secret enemies of Russia, as well as by the reactionaries who could not imagine the future of their Fatherland, who had never been beyond the Urals. Admiral Nevelskoy made his discoveries in the Far East against orders, at his own peril and risk. "

In the fall of 1945. the liberation campaign of the Soviet Army against the Japanese militarists began. Together with the writers A. Gai, D. Nagishkin, N. Rogal, Y. Shestakova, Zadornov asked for the front. All Far Eastern writers were not enlisted in the army, but were appointed as correspondents of the Khabarovsk regional branch of TASS and transferred to China. Zadornov traveled a lot in Manchuria, talking with captured Japanese colonels and generals. What he saw and experienced during the war was later reflected in historical novels about the expedition of Admiral Putyatin to Japan. All these years he studied the life of local peoples, worked in archives and wrote the sequel to the first part of the novel "Cupid Father". In 1946, the second book of the novel was published. It was republished in Moscow and Leningrad, then translated into many European languages. The writer continued the novel. The new book "Gold Rush" was published in 1969.

Since the fall of 1946, while working as editor of the Russian Almanac and head of the section of Russian writers in Latvia, he continues to write the stories "Mangmu" and "Markeshkino's gun". The result is the novel "Distant Land".
After working in the central archives of the country, in the fall of 1948, the writer returned to Riga and wrote the novel "Towards the Ocean" in 3 months. Both of these novels were published in 1949, and in 1956-1958 - two books of the novel "Captain Nevelskoy". The cycle of novels about the historical feat of the Russian people in the Far East was completed with the publication of the book "War for the Ocean" (1963).

In 1952, N, P. Zadornov was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for the creation of the historical novels "Cupid Father", "Distant Crane", "Towards the Ocean".

The Riga period of Zadornov's life was the longest and most fruitful. On his initiative, a section of Russian writers was created in the Writers' Union of Latvia, which he headed. He collected and attracted talented young people, gave lectures on literature, was the first editor of the literary and journalistic magazine "Parus", which published works of Latvian authors in Russian.

He was engaged in translations of his novels into Latvian. In the late sixties - in the seventies N. Zadornov wrote a trilogy - "Tsunami", "Shimoda" and "Heda". These historical novels are set in the middle of the last century. Crimean War. The South of Russia is on fire. Meanwhile, Admiral Putyatin goes to the shores of Japan to establish trade, economic, diplomatic relations with it, the members of the expedition find themselves in a dramatic situation: crushing tsunami strikes destroy the Russian ship "Diana". Russian sailors remain in Japan, they begin to build a new ship to return to their homeland ...

In search of material for his work, Nikolai Pavlovich twice visited Japan, lived in the village of Heda, went on a fishing ship to the foot of Mount Fujiyama, where Admiral Putyatin died, sailed on a ship to Hong Kong. Zadornov was not admitted to the Japanese archival documents. But interesting information about the historical figures of interest to the writer, he was told by Mr. Kawada - a young scholar of the archives of the imperial court. The trilogy "Heda", "Tsunami" and "Shimoda", later combined under the general title "The Saga of the Russian Argonauts", was received with great interest not only by Russian readers, but also by masters of Japanese literature as a completely original phenomenon. In Tokyo, the books were published by the Asahi publishing house.

In 1977-1979, the publishing house "Khudozhestvennaya literatura" published a six-volume collection of works by N. P. Zadornov.
In the last years of his life, Zadornov conceived a series of novels about Vladivostok. The novels "Hong Kong", "The Lady of the Seas", "The Wind of Fertility" were written and published, and the novel "Rich Mane" was being worked on. In the last completed novel, The Wind of Fertility, the writer raised the historical theme of relations between Russia and China. With deep knowledge, he revealed the diplomatic, trade, everyday, cultural, economic ties of peoples.

Many critics, researchers and biographers of Zadornov noted his exactingness in relation to himself. Nikolai Pavlovich was never satisfied with the first edition. He ruled, added, crossed out, managed, new episodes appeared, dialogues were polished ... The work began anew.
Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov died in 1992. at the age of 83 Until the last day, he continued to work on the Far East theme.
Japanese criticism has repeatedly noted the Russian writer Zadornov as "a unique artist of nature and man."

The American Literary Encyclopedia says that Zadornov “raised the layers of the history of peoples, hitherto unknown to civilization. He colorfully depicted their life, with deep knowledge told about manners, habits, family disputes, love, misfortunes, everyday troubles, craving for the Russian language, Russian rituals and way of life. "

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Biography, life story of Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov

Zadornov Nikolai Pavlovich - Russian writer and screenwriter.

Childhood

Nikolai Zadornov was born in Penza on November 22 (new style - December 5) 1909 in the family of Pavel Ivanovich, a veterinarian, and his wife Vera Mikhailovna. Nikolai was left without a father early - Pavel Ivanovich was accused of deliberately destroying livestock and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He died in prison, later, in 1956, was rehabilitated.

Nikolai spent his childhood in Siberia. He also graduated from high school there.

Creative way

From 1926 to 1941 Nikolai Zadornov worked as an actor and director of theaters in Siberia, the Far East and Ufa. Collaborated with many newspapers - "Tikhoretsky Rabochy", "Soviet Siberia", "Krasnaya Bashkiria". In difficult war times, Zadornov worked for the Khabarovsk Regional Radio Committee and the local daily socio-political newspaper Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda. At the same time, during the war, the writer created his first novel entitled "Cupid Father". Nikolai Alekseevich wrote the novel for five years - from 1941 to 1946 - and published it in three books. The work tells about the difficult life of peasant settlers in the 60-70s of the XIX century in the Amur region. Zadornov wrote about how they developed the land and contacted the people living there. The novel became very successful - in 1952, its significance was awarded the Stalin Prize.

Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov is the author of many historical novels. He penned as many as two cycles of works about the Far East in the 19th century, including "Cupid Father". In addition, the writer created a novel about contemporary modernity "Yellow, Green, Blue ...", which was published in 1967, and a book of essays on travel, "Blue Hour", which went on sale in 1968. In the 1970s-1980s, Nikolai Pavlovich wrote and published a tetralogy of novels about the life and achievements of the Russian admiral and diplomat Evfimy Putyatin.

In 1984 Nikolai Zadornov acted as the scriptwriter and presenter of the documentary "Arseniev's Trail".

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Geography of life and travel

From 1946 until his death, Nikolai Pavlovich lived in Riga. Later he traveled outside his native territories twice - in 1969 and 1972 he visited Japan.

Personal life

The wife of Nikolai Zadornova was Elena Melkhiorovna, a Polish woman from the old gentry family of the Pokorno-Matusevichs, a descendant of the Polish king and Lithuanian prince Stefan Batory. Nikolai met Elena at the editorial office of the Ufa newspaper - Elena worked there as a proofreader. At the time of the meeting, Elena already had an unsuccessful marriage behind her back and her son Lolly, born in 1930.

In 1942, the Zadornovs had a daughter, Lyudmila. Lyudmila connected her life with educational activities, became an English teacher at the Baltic International Academy. In 2009, a woman wrote a book about her family - “The Zadornovs. The history of the genus ".

In 1948, Nikolai and Elena had a second child - a son. became a famous satirist, humorist and actor. Died in November 2017 from a brain tumor.

Death

Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov passed away on September 18, 1992 at the age of 82. The body of the writer was buried at the Jaundubulti cemetery in Jurmala.

Memory

A memorial plaque was installed on the house in Penza where Nikolai Zadornov lived. The address of the house is Revolutsionnaya Street 45. There is also a plaque in the house in Riga at the corner of the intersection of Rupniecibas and Elizabetes streets. Zadornov lived in this house from 1948 to 1992. And one more memorial plaque to Nikolai Pavlovich was installed on the facade of the drama theater in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

In Khabarovsk, on the Amur embankment, there is a monument to the writer Nikolai Zadornov.

Awards and prizes

Nikolai Zadornov is the owner of many honorary medals and titles, among them: the title of Honored Worker of Culture of the Latvian SSR, the Order of the October Revolution, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples and others.

(1948-2017).

Nikolay Pavlovich Zadornov

Date of Birth	November 22 / December 5(1909-12-05 )
Place of Birth	Penza, Russian empire
Date of death	June 18(1992-06-18 ) (82 years old)
A place of death	Riga, Latvia
Citizenship (citizenship)
Occupation
Direction	socialist realism
genre	historical novel
Language of works	Russian
Prizes
Awards
Works on the website Lib.ru
Media files at Wikimedia Commons

Biography

Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov was born on November 22 (December 5) 1909 in Penza in the family of the veterinarian Pavel Ivanovich Zadornov (1875-1933) and Vera Mikhailovna Zadornova (nee Shestakova, 1876-1961) (later P.I. extermination of livestock and died in prison), grew up in Siberia.

After graduating from high school in 1926-1941, he was an actor and director in theaters in Siberia, the Far East, Ufa, worked in mobile groups. From 1935 he was a literary contributor to the newspapers Beloretskiy Rabochy, Sovetskaya Sibir, Krasnaya Bashkiria. During the Great Patriotic War he worked in the Khabarovsk regional radio committee and in the Khabarovsk newspaper "Tikhookeanskaya zvezda". During this period, he wrote his first novel "Cupid Father".

NP Zadornov owns two cycles of historical novels about the development of the Russian Far East in the 19th century, about the exploits of explorers. The first cycle consists of 4 novels: "Distant Land" (books 1-2, 1946-1949), "First Discovery" (first title - "Towards the Ocean", 1949), "Captain Nevelskoy" (books 1-2, 1956 -1958) and "War for the Ocean" (books 1-2, 1960-1962). The second cycle (on the development of the Far East by peasants-settlers) is thematically connected with the first: the novels Amur the Father (books 1-2, 1941-1946) and The Gold Rush (1969).

In 1969 and 1972 he visited Japan.

Nikolai Zadornov died on June 18, 1992. He was buried in Jurmala, at the cemetery in Jaundubulti.

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Bulletin of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. - M .: Edition of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1984. - No. 47 (November 21). - 861 - 872 p. - [Articles 831 - 847.]