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Writer, public figure.

Born September 13, 1935 in Kirov in a working-class family.
In 1958 he graduated from the Ural State University them. M. Gorky (Sverdlovsk), Faculty of Philology, Department of Journalism. He gave essays about youth.
The first book is “Yurka Gagarin, namesake of the cosmonaut” (1966).
1961-1964 - Chief Editor newspapers "Komsomolskoe Plemya"
1964-1966 - Komsomolskaya Pravda’s own correspondent for Western Siberia (Novosibirsk)
1975-87 - Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Smena".
1987-1992 - Chairman of the Board of the Soviet Children's Fund named after. V.I.Lenin,
Since 1991 - Chairman of the Board of the Russian Children's Fund, President of the International Association of Children's Funds, Director of the Research Institute of Childhood of the Russian Children's Fund (since 1988).

Basic literary works- stories “Clean Pebbles”, “Deception”, “Labyrinth” (trilogy “ Family circumstances"), "Good Intentions", "Calvary", "Innocent Secrets", "The Capital", "Flood", "Nobody", "Broken Doll". The novel in the stories “Russian Boys” and the novel “Men’s School” form a duology about military operations.

In 2005, the collected works of Albert Likhanov were published in the form of a library of 20 books. More than 100 of his books have been published abroad. Seven of the writer’s works have been filmed, three have been dramatized.

prizes and awards

Creative and social-pedagogical activities of A.A. Likhanova has received numerous domestic and international awards: State Prize Russia, Russian Prize them. A.S. Green, Lenin Komsomol Prize, International Prize them. M. Gorky, International Prize named after. Janusz Korczak, International Cultural Prize. Victor Hugo, American Award“Oliver”, Japanese award “Sakura”, awards named after. N. Ostrovsky, named after. B. Polevoy, Bolshaya literary prize Russia, Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education.
He was awarded many medals of the USSR, the medal of K.D. Ushinsky, N.K. Krupskaya, L. Tolstoy, the Order of the Badge of Honor and the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III and IV degrees, the Georgian Order of Honor, the Ukrainian Order of Merit, medals of Belarus and Armenia.
A.A. Likhanov was recognized as Person of the Year in Russia and the USA in 2005, and in 2006 he was awarded the World Medal of Freedom “Freedom” in the USA “for his hourly and daily practical contribution to the global treasury of good.”

Albert Anatolyevich Likhanov(b. September 13) - Soviet, then Russian children's and youth writer, public figure. President of the International Association of Children's Funds, Chairman of the Russian Children's Fund, Director of the Research Institute of Childhood.

Later, Albert Likhanov is invited to work in Moscow. Then he becomes a long-term employee of the popular youth magazine “Smena” - first as the executive secretary, and then, for more than thirteen years, as the editor-in-chief.

During these years, literary fame came to him. One after another, Yunost publishes his stories.

Returning to Moscow, Likhanov conducts great job to prepare this important document for ratification. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR ratified the Convention, and it came into force on June 13, 1990. Later, all the republics that were part of the USSR, having received the status of independent states, confirmed the legality of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on their territories.

Likhanov also established and headed the Scientific Research Institute of Childhood, created the literary club “Molodost” for aspiring authors, created the publishing house “Dom”, the magazines “We” for teenagers and “Tram” for kids, and subsequently the magazines “ Guiding star. School reading", "God's World", "Child of Man", " Foreign novel" Opened a publishing, educational and Cultural Center"Childhood. Adolescence. Youth". On his initiative, a children's rehabilitation center of the International Association of Children's Funds was created in the Moscow region. In the Belgorod region there is Orphanage in the regional center of Rovenki, built with the financial participation of the Russian Children's Fund and also named after him. In Kirov there is a library for children and youth named after Albert Likhanov. The children's library named after Albert Likhanov operates in the city of Shakhty, Rostov region, and the Belgorod regional children's library has been given the status of "A. A. Likhanov's Library."

His works have been published in Russia in 30 million copies. Back in 1979, the publishing house "Young Guard" published "Favorites" in 2 volumes. In 1986-1987, the same publishing house published collected works in 4 volumes with a circulation of 150 thousand copies. In 2000, the Terra publishing house published a collection of works in 6 volumes. In 2005, the “Library “Love and Remember” was published in 20 books. And in 2010, “Terra” published a new collection of works in 7 volumes. In the same year, 2010, the publishing, educational and cultural center “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth” published a collection of works for children and youth by Albert Likhanov in 15 volumes with color illustrations and large print. In 2014-2015, the same publishing house released the novel "Russian Boys" in the form of a cycle of 11 large-format and high-quality illustrated books. In 2015, the publishing house "Knigovek" published collected works in 10 volumes

In the Belgorod region (since 2000) and in Kirov region(since 2001) annual Likhanov social-literary and literary-pedagogical readings are held, in which many children, parents, teachers, creative intelligentsia, and the public take part. In the Kirov region, a prize named after Albert Likhanov was established for librarians of school, children's and rural libraries. For teachers primary school he established a prize named after his first teacher A. N. Teplyashina, who taught him during the war and was awarded two Orders of Lenin. At the initiative of the writer, a memorial plaque was installed for her. 106 books by the writer have been published abroad in Russia in 34 languages.

The first collected works in 4 volumes were published in 1986-87 (“Young Guard”). In 2000 - in 6 volumes (Terra, Moscow). In 2005 - “Albert Likhanov’s Library “Love and Remember”, which included 20 non-standardly designed books (“Childhood. Adolescence. Youth”). In 2010 - a collection of works for children and youth in 15 volumes (“Childhood. Adolescence . Youth") and a collection of works in 7 volumes ("Knigovek") as a supplement to the magazine "Ogonyok".

The period of maturation of Likhanov’s talent can be roughly designated as 1967-1976. At this time he creates such significant works, like the novel “Labyrinth”, the stories “Clean Pebbles”, “Deception”, “ Solar eclipse" and others. The theme of the formation of the younger generation becomes the main one in his work. The writer pays special attention to the role of family and school in raising a child and in shaping his character.

Likhanov wrote a series wonderful works about military childhood. The military theme in the writer’s work acquires special significance and organicity, because it embodies his ideas about life values, about honor, duty, feat, about human dignity. Works about wartime childhood were created by the writer on a life basis - the memory of his childhood. In them the author conveys the feeling of what he experienced during the Great Patriotic War. Publicism, passion, truthfulness - character traits Likhanov style in all literary genres. One of the most dramatic works about wartime childhood - the story “The Last Cold” (). This story, the stories “The Store of Beloved Aids” and “Children’s Library”, the novel “Men’s School”, form a kind of literary cycle about wartime childhood. Military theme Likhanov touches on both in the story “Military Echelon” and in the novel “My General”. In the writer’s books, the author’s personality is felt; it manifests itself primarily in the pathos of his work, in the way he relates to the moral quest of the heroes, to their uncontrollable desire to find themselves, to discover the best in themselves.

1970-1990 - the period of Likhanov’s active writing activity. He publishes works of various genres, addressed to readers of different ages. From reflections on letters from readers, the idea for a book about modern education"Dramatic Pedagogy: Essays conflict situations"(), which has been translated into many languages. For this book in 1987 A. A. Likhanov was awarded the International Prize named after. Janusz Korczak. Likhanov successfully combines his creativity with active social activities in defense of children.

Albert Likhanov is active civil position defender moral values and the traditions of his Fatherland, therefore he fights with the word of the writer and the deeds of the Children's Fund to preserve happiness in the life of every child, for adults to understand the problems younger generation &

In the preface to the book “For These Little Ones,” Likhanov states:

Movies

• - “Family Circumstances”, based on the story “Deception”. Director L. Martynyuk, scriptwriter A. Likhanov; Minsk, Belarusfilm.
• - “My General”, 2-episode TV movie. Director A. Benkendorf, scriptwriter A. Likhanov; Kyiv, Film Studio named after. A. Dovzhenko.
• - “Good intentions”, based on the story of the same name. Director A. Benkendorf, scriptwriter A. Likhanov; Kyiv, Film Studio named after. A. Dovzhenko.
• - “Carousel on the Market Square”, based on A. Likhanov’s story “Golgotha”. Directed by N. Istanbul, scripted by A. Likhanov. Moscow, “Mosfilm” (filmed in Slobodsky, Kirov region).
• - "Team 33". Based on the story “Military Echelon” by A. Likhanov. Director N. Gusarov, scriptwriter V. Chernykh. Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Film Studio.
• - “The highest measure” (in Slovak), based on the story of the same name by A. Likhanov. Bratislava (Slovakia), Slovak Television.
• - “The Last Cold”, based on the story of the same name by A. Likhanov. Directors B. Kalymbetov, B. Iskakov, scriptwriters B. Kalymbetov, S. Narymbetov, B. Iskakov. Kazakhstan.

Awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (2005)
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2000) - for services to the state and many years of active social activities
• Order of Honor (2016)
• Order of Friendship (2010) - for many years of active social activities and the development of humanitarian cooperation
• Order of Honor (Georgia, 1996)
• Order of Merit, III degree (Ukraine, 2006)
• Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius, 1st degree (Bulgaria, 2007)
• Order of Francis Skaryna (Republic of Belarus, 2015)
• Order of Friendship (Republic of South Ossetia, 2010)
• Order of Honor (Republic of South Ossetia, 2015)
• medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin"
• medal "For the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline"
• medals of the USSR, Armenia and Belarus
• Presidential Award Russian Federation in the field of education (2003) - for the creation of family orphanages
• Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of culture (2009) - for the dilogy “Russian Boys” and “Men’s School”
• State Prize of the RSFSR named after N.K. Krupskaya (1980) - for the novel “My General” and the stories “Deception” and “Solar Eclipse”
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976) - for books for children “Music”, “Family Circumstances”, “My General”
• International J. Korczak Prize (1987) - for the book “Dramatic Pedagogy” (The prize was donated by the writer to the Polish J. Korczak Foundation)
• International medal “Ecce Homo - Gloria Homini” (“Here is Man - Glory to Man”), awarded on March 4, 2013 in Poland at the Warsaw Royal Palace by the outstanding Polish actress Beata Tyszkiewicz and the famous public figure Stanislav Kowalski, President of the “Hurry with Help” Foundation. The award has number 2, the first medal was awarded quite some time ago to the Minister of Health of Poland, the famous doctor Zbigniew Religa.
• The Russian Ludwig Nobel Prize (2014) was awarded on March 30, 2014 at the residence of the President of the Russian Federation - the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna.

Confessional awards

Russian Orthodox Church:

Armenian Apostolic Holy Church:

• Order of Saint Sahak - Saint Mesrop (2015).

Muslim:

• Order of Al-Fakhr, II degree (2003)
• Order of Al-Fakhr, 1st class (2005)

Other

International Maxim Gorky Prize, International Janusz Korczak Prize, French-Japanese Cultural Prize named after V. Hugo (1996), Cyril and Methodius Prize (Bulgaria, 2000), Sakura Prize (Japan, 2001), Oliver Prize (USA, 2005). Prize named after Nikolai Ostrovsky (1982), named after Boris Polevoy (1984), named after Alexander Green (2000), “Prokhorovsky Field” (2003), “Great Literary Prize of Russia” of the SPR and the “Diamonds of Russia” campaign (2002) for the novel “Nobody” "and the story "Broken Doll", prize named after D. Mamin-Sibiryak (2005), named after Vladislav Krapivin (2006), named after N. A. Ostrovsky (2007). Special Prize named after I. A. Bunin “for outstanding contribution to Russian literature for children and youth” (2008).

International Literary Prize named after. Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011), Tallinn; Russian Literary Prize named after. A. I. Herzen (2012) for the volume of social journalism “For these little ones (Letters in Defense of Childhood)”, 5th edition - the writer donated the material part of the prize to the Library for Children and Youth on Orlovskaya Street in Kirov to perpetuate the memory of A. I. Herzen, V. Zhukovsky, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin and others wonderful people who were there. September 27, 2013 in the republican drama theater Of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Albert Likhanov, by decree of the President of Bashkortostan R. Khamitov, was awarded the Russian Literary Aksakov Prize. In December 2013, he was awarded the Golden Knight award - “for outstanding contribution to children's literature.” In July 2015, the All-Russian Prize "Russian Way" named after F.I. Tyutchev was awarded. On February 22, 2016, by decision of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), minor planet N 73638 was given the name Likhanov.

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Literature

• Anninsky L. The circle of existence of Albert Likhanov. M.: Childhood. Adolescence. Youth, 2012.
• Biobibliographic index “Albert Likhanov” (prepared by the Kirov Regional scientific library named after A.I. Herzen). M. Childhood. Adolescence. Youth, 2012.

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An excerpt characterizing Likhanov, Albert Anatolyevich

– Or are you afraid to play with me? - Dolokhov said now, as if he had guessed Rostov’s thought, and smiled. Because of his smile, Rostov saw in him the mood of spirit that he had during dinner at the club and in general at those times when, as if bored with everyday life, Dolokhov felt the need for some strange, for the most part a cruel act to get out of it.
Rostov felt awkward; he searched and did not find a joke in his mind that would respond to Dolokhov’s words. But before he could do this, Dolokhov, looking straight into Rostov’s face, slowly and deliberately, so that everyone could hear, said to him:
– Do you remember we talked about the game... a fool who wants to play for luck; I probably should play, but I want to try.
“Try for luck, or perhaps?” thought Rostov.
“And it’s better not to play,” he added, and cracking the torn deck, he added: “Bank, gentlemen!”
Moving the money forward, Dolokhov prepared to throw. Rostov sat down next to him and did not play at first. Dolokhov glanced at him.
- Why don’t you play? - said Dolokhov. And strangely, Nikolai felt the need to take a card, put a small jackpot on it and start the game.
“I have no money with me,” said Rostov.
– I’ll believe it!
Rostov bet 5 rubles on the card and lost, bet again and lost again. Dolokhov killed, that is, he won ten cards in a row from Rostov.
“Gentlemen,” he said, after spending some time, “please put money on the cards, otherwise I might get confused in the accounts.”
One player said he hoped he could be trusted.
– I can believe it, but I’m afraid of getting confused; “Please put money on the cards,” Dolokhov answered. “Don’t be shy, we’ll get even with you,” he added to Rostov.
The game continued: the footman, without ceasing, served champagne.
All Rostov's cards were broken, and up to 800 tons of rubles were written on him. He was about to write 800 thousand rubles on one card, but while he was being served champagne, he changed his mind and wrote the usual jackpot again, twenty rubles.
“Leave it,” said Dolokhov, although he did not seem to look at Rostov, “you’ll get even sooner.” I give to others, but I beat you. Or are you afraid of me? - he repeated.
Rostov obeyed, left the written 800 and placed the seven of hearts with a torn off corner, which he picked up from the ground. He remembered her well afterwards. He placed the seven of hearts, writing 800 above it with a broken piece of chalk, in round, straight numbers; drank the served glass of warmed champagne, smiled at Dolokhov’s words, and with bated breath, waiting for the seven, began to look at Dolokhov’s hands holding the deck. Winning or losing this seven of hearts meant a lot for Rostov. On Sunday last week, Count Ilya Andreich gave his son 2,000 rubles, and he, who never liked to talk about financial difficulties, told him that this money was the last one until May, and that is why he asked his son to be more economical this time. Nikolai said that this was too much for him, and that he gave his word of honor not to take more money until spring. Now 1,200 rubles of this money remained. Therefore, the seven of hearts meant not only a loss of 1,600 rubles, but also the need to change this word. With a sinking heart, he looked at Dolokhov’s hands and thought: “Well, quickly, give me this card, and I’ll take my cap, go home to dinner with Denisov, Natasha and Sonya, and I’ll certainly never have a card in my hands.” At this moment home life his jokes with Petya, conversations with Sonya, duets with Natasha, a picket with his father, and even a calm bed in the Cook's house, presented themselves to him with such strength, clarity and charm, as if all this was long past, lost and unappreciated happiness. He could not allow that a stupid accident, forcing the seven to lie first on the right than on the left, could deprive him of all this newly understood, newly illuminated happiness and plunge him into the abyss of an as yet untested and uncertain misfortune. This could not be, but he still waited with bated breath for the movement of Dolokhov’s hands. These broad-boned, reddish hands with hair visible from under the shirt, put down a deck of cards, and took hold of the glass and pipe being served.
- So you're not afraid to play with me? - Dolokhov repeated, and, as if in order to tell funny story, he put down the cards, leaned back in his chair and slowly began to tell with a smile:
“Yes, gentlemen, I was told that there is a rumor spread in Moscow that I am a cheater, so I advise you to be careful with me.”
- Well, swords! - said Rostov.
- Oh, Moscow aunties! - said Dolokhov and took up the cards with a smile.
- Aaah! – Rostov almost shouted, raising both hands to his hair. The seven he needed was already at the top, the first card in the deck. He lost more than he could pay.
“However, don’t get too carried away,” said Dolokhov, glancing briefly at Rostov and continuing to throw.

After an hour and a half, most of the players were already jokingly looking at their own game.
The whole game focused on Rostov alone. Instead of one thousand six hundred rubles, a long column of numbers was written down behind him, which he had counted up to the tenth thousand, but which now, as he vaguely assumed, had already risen to fifteen thousand. In fact, the entry already exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dolokhov no longer listened or told stories; he followed every movement of Rostov’s hands and occasionally glanced briefly at his note behind him. He decided to continue the game until this entry increased to forty-three thousand. He chose this number because forty-three was the sum of his years added up with Sonya's years. Rostov, leaning his head on both hands, sat in front of a table covered with writings, covered in wine, and littered with cards. One painful impression did not leave him: these broad-boned, reddish hands with hair visible from under his shirt, these hands that he loved and hated, held him in their power.
“Six hundred rubles, ace, corner, nine... it’s impossible to win back!... And how fun it would be at home... Jack on n... it can’t be!... And why is he doing this to me?...” Rostov thought and recalled. Sometimes he would play a big card; but Dolokhov refused to beat her, and he himself nominated the jackpot. Nicholas submitted to him, and then prayed to God, as he prayed on the battlefield on the Amsteten Bridge; then he wished that the card that would be the first to fall into his hand from a pile of curved cards under the table would save him; either he calculated how many laces there were on his jacket and with the same number of points he tried to bet a card on the entire loss, then he looked around at the other players for help, then he peered into Dolokhov’s now cold face and tried to understand what was going on inside him.
“After all, he knows what this loss means to me. He can't want my death, can he? After all, he was my friend. After all, I loved him... But it’s not his fault either; What should he do when he is lucky? And it’s not my fault, he told himself. I didn't do anything wrong. Have I killed anyone, insulted anyone, or wished harm? Why such a terrible misfortune? And when did it start? Just recently I approached this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles, buying this box for my mother’s name day and going home. I was so happy, so free, cheerful! And I didn’t understand then how happy I was! When did this end, and when did this new, terrible state begin? What marked this change? I still sat in this place, at this table, and still chose and pushed out cards, and looked at these big-boned, dexterous hands. When did this happen, and what happened? I am healthy, strong and still the same, and still in the same place. No, it can't be! It’s true that all this will not end in anything.”
He was red and covered in sweat, despite the fact that the room was not hot. And his face was scary and pitiful, especially due to his powerless desire to appear calm.
The record reached the fateful number of forty-three thousand. Rostov prepared a card, which was supposed to be an angle from the three thousand rubles that had just been given to him, when Dolokhov, knocking the deck, put it aside and, taking the chalk, quickly began, in his clear, strong handwriting, breaking the chalk, to summarize Rostov’s note.
- Dinner, time for dinner! Here come the gypsies! - Indeed, with their gypsy accent, some black men and women were already coming in from the cold and saying something. Nikolai understood that it was all over; but he said in an indifferent voice:
- Well, you won’t do it yet? And I have a nice card prepared. “It was as if he was most interested in the fun of the game itself.”
“It’s over, I’m lost! he thought. Now there’s a bullet in the forehead - only one thing remains,” and at the same time he said in a cheerful voice:
- Well, one more card.
“Okay,” answered Dolokhov, having finished the summary, “good!” “It’s 21 rubles,” he said, pointing to the number 21, which equaled exactly 43 thousand, and taking the deck, he prepared to throw. Rostov obediently turned the corner and instead of the prepared 6,000, he carefully wrote 21.
“It doesn’t matter to me,” he said, “I’m only interested in knowing whether you’ll kill or give me this ten.”
Dolokhov began throwing seriously. Oh, how Rostov at that moment hated these hands, reddish with short fingers and with hair visible from under his shirt, which had him in their power... Ten was given.
“You have 43 thousand behind you, Count,” said Dolokhov and stood up from the table, stretching. “But you get tired of sitting for so long,” he said.
“Yes, I’m tired too,” said Rostov.
Dolokhov, as if reminding him that it was indecent for him to joke, interrupted him: When will you order the money, Count?
Rostov flushed and called Dolokhov into another room.
“I can’t suddenly pay everything, you’ll take the bill,” he said.
“Listen, Rostov,” said Dolokhov, smiling clearly and looking into Nikolai’s eyes, “you know the saying: “Happy in love, unhappy in cards.” Your cousin is in love with you. I know.
"ABOUT! it’s terrible to feel so in the power of this man,” thought Rostov. Rostov understood what blow he would deal to his father and mother by announcing this loss; he understood what happiness it would be to get rid of all this, and he understood that Dolokhov knew that he could save him from this shame and grief, and now he still wanted to play with him, like a cat with a mouse.
“Your cousin...” Dolokhov wanted to say; but Nikolai interrupted him.
“My cousin has nothing to do with it, and there is nothing to talk about her!” - he shouted furiously.
- So when can I get it? – asked Dolokhov.
“Tomorrow,” said Rostov, and left the room.

It was not difficult to say “tomorrow” and maintain a tone of decency; but to come home alone, to see your sisters, brother, mother, father, to confess and ask for money to which you have no right after your word of honor was given.
We weren't sleeping at home yet. The youth of the Rostov house, having returned from the theater, having had dinner, sat at the clavichord. As soon as Nikolai entered the hall, he was overwhelmed by that loving, poetic atmosphere that reigned in their house that winter and which now, after Dolokhov’s proposal and Iogel’s ball, seemed to thicken even more, like the air before a thunderstorm, over Sonya and Natasha. Sonya and Natasha, in the blue dresses they wore at the theater, pretty and knowing it, happy, smiling, stood at the clavichord. Vera and Shinshin were playing chess in the living room. The old countess, waiting for her son and husband, was playing solitaire with an old noblewoman who lived in their house. Denisov, with shining eyes and tousled hair, sat with his leg thrown back at the clavichord, clapping them with his short fingers, striking chords, and rolling his eyes, in his small, hoarse, but faithful voice, sang the poem he had composed, “The Sorceress,” to which he was trying to find music.
Sorceress, tell me what power
Draws me to abandoned strings;
What fire have you planted in your heart,
What delight flowed through my fingers!
He sang in a passionate voice, shining at the frightened and happy Natasha with her agate black eyes.
- Wonderful! Great! – Natasha shouted. “Another verse,” she said, not noticing Nikolai.
“They have everything the same,” thought Nikolai, looking into the living room, where he saw Vera and his mother with the old woman.
- A! Here comes Nikolenka! – Natasha ran up to him.
- Is daddy at home? - he asked.
– I’m so glad you came! – Natasha said without answering, “we’re having so much fun.” Vasily Dmitrich remains for me one more day, you know?
“No, dad hasn’t come yet,” said Sonya.
- Coco, you have arrived, come to me, my friend! - said the countess's voice from the living room. Nikolai approached his mother, kissed her hand and, silently sitting down at her table, began to look at her hands, laying out the cards. Laughter and cheerful voices were still heard from the hall, persuading Natasha.
“Well, okay, okay,” Denisov shouted, “now there’s no point in making excuses, barcarolla is behind you, I beg you.”
The Countess looked back at her silent son.
- What happened to you? – Nikolai’s mother asked.
“Oh, nothing,” he said, as if he was already tired of this same question.
- Will daddy arrive soon?
- I think.
“Everything is the same for them. They don't know anything! Where should I go?” thought Nikolai and went back to the hall where the clavichord stood.
Sonya sat at the clavichord and played the prelude of the barcarolle that Denisov especially loved. Natasha was going to sing. Denisov looked at her with delighted eyes.
Nikolai began to walk back and forth around the room.
“And now you want to make her sing? – what can she sing? And there’s nothing fun here,” thought Nikolai.
Sonya struck the first chord of the prelude.
“My God, I am lost, I am a dishonest person. A bullet in the forehead, the only thing left to do is not sing, he thought. Leave? but where? anyway, let them sing!”
Nikolai gloomily, continuing to walk around the room, glanced at Denisov and the girls, avoiding their gaze.
“Nikolenka, what’s wrong with you?” – asked Sonya’s gaze fixed on him. She immediately saw that something had happened to him.
Nikolai turned away from her. Natasha, with her sensitivity, also instantly noticed her brother’s condition. She noticed him, but she herself was so happy at that moment, she was so far from grief, sadness, reproaches, that she (as often happens with young people) deliberately deceived herself. No, I’m having too much fun now to spoil my fun by sympathizing with someone else’s grief, she felt, and said to herself:
“No, I’m rightly mistaken, he should be as cheerful as I am.” Well, Sonya,” she said and went out to the very middle of the hall, where, in her opinion, the resonance was best. Raising her head, lowering her lifelessly hanging hands, as dancers do, Natasha, energetically shifting from heel to tiptoe, walked through the middle of the room and stopped.
"Here I am!" as if she was speaking in response to the enthusiastic gaze of Denisov, who was watching her.
“And why is she happy! - Nikolai thought, looking at his sister. And how isn’t she bored and ashamed!” Natasha hit the first note, her throat expanded, her chest straightened, her eyes took on a serious expression. She was not thinking about anyone or anything at that moment, and sounds flowed from her folded mouth into a smile, those sounds that anyone can make at the same intervals and at the same intervals, but which a thousand times leave you cold, in the thousand and first times they make you shudder and cry.
This winter Natasha began to sing seriously for the first time, especially because Denisov admired her singing. She no longer sang like a child, there was no longer in her singing that comic, childish diligence that was in her before; but she still did not sing well, as all the expert judges who listened to her said. “Not processed, but a wonderful voice, it needs to be processed,” everyone said. But they usually said this long after her voice had fallen silent. At the same time, when this raw voice sounded with irregular aspirations and with efforts of transitions, even the expert judges did not say anything, and only enjoyed this raw voice and only wanted to hear it again. In her voice there was that virginal pristineness, that ignorance of her own strengths and that still unprocessed velvet, which were so combined with the shortcomings of the art of singing that it seemed impossible to change anything in this voice without spoiling it.
“What is this? - Nikolai thought, hearing her voice and opening his eyes wide. -What happened to her? How does she sing these days? - he thought. And suddenly the whole world focused for him, waiting for the next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world became divided into three tempos: “Oh mio crudele affetto... [Oh my Cruel love…] One, two, three... one, two... three... one... Oh mio crudele affetto... One, two, three... one. Eh, our life is stupid! - Nikolai thought. All this, and misfortune, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor - all this is nonsense... but here it is real... Hey, Natasha, well, my dear! Well, mother!... how will she take this si? I took it! God bless!" - and he, without noticing that he was singing, in order to strengthen this si, took the second to the third of a high note. "My God! how good! Did I really take it? how happy!” he thought.
ABOUT! how this third trembled, and how something better that was in Rostov’s soul was touched. And this was something independent of everything in the world, and above everything in the world. What kind of losses are there, and the Dolokhovs, and honestly!... It’s all nonsense! You can kill, steal and still be happy...

Rostov has not experienced such pleasure from music for a long time as on this day. But as soon as Natasha finished her barcarolle, reality came back to him again. He left without saying anything and went downstairs to his room. A quarter of an hour later the old count, cheerful and satisfied, arrived from the club. Nikolai, hearing his arrival, went to him.
- Well, did you have fun? - said Ilya Andreich, smiling joyfully and proudly at his son. Nikolai wanted to say “yes,” but he couldn’t: he almost burst into tears. The Count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s condition.
“Oh, inevitably!” - Nikolai thought for the first time and last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, such that he seemed disgusted to himself, as if he was asking the carriage to go to the city, he told his father.
- Dad, I came to you for business. I forgot about it. I need money.
“That’s it,” said the father, who was in a particularly cheerful spirit. - I told you that it won’t be enough. Is it a lot?
“A lot,” Nikolai said, blushing and with a stupid, careless smile, which for a long time later he could not forgive himself. – I lost a little, that is, a lot, even a lot, 43 thousand.
- What? Who?... You're kidding! - shouted the count, suddenly turning apoplectic red in the neck and back of his head, like old people blush.
“I promised to pay tomorrow,” said Nikolai.
“Well!...” said the old count, spreading his arms and sank helplessly onto the sofa.
- What to do! Who hasn't this happened to? - said the son in a cheeky, bold tone, while in his soul he considered himself a scoundrel, a scoundrel who could not atone for his crime with his whole life. He would have liked to kiss his father's hands, on his knees to ask for his forgiveness, but he said in a careless and even rude tone that this happens to everyone.
Count Ilya Andreich lowered his eyes when he heard these words from his son and hurried, looking for something.
“Yes, yes,” he said, “it’s difficult, I’m afraid, it’s difficult to get... never happened to anyone!” yes, who hasn’t happened to... - And the count glanced briefly into his son’s face and walked out of the room... Nikolai was preparing to fight back, but he never expected this.
- Daddy! pa... hemp! - he shouted after him, sobbing; excuse me! “And, grabbing his father’s hand, he pressed his lips to it and began to cry.

While the father was explaining to his son, an equally important explanation was taking place between the mother and daughter. Natasha ran to her mother excitedly.
- Mom!... Mom!... he did it to me...
- What did you do?
- I did, I proposed. Mother! Mother! - she shouted. The Countess could not believe her ears. Denisov proposed. To whom? This tiny girl Natasha, who had recently been playing with dolls and was now taking lessons.
- Natasha, that’s complete nonsense! – she said, still hoping that it was a joke.
- Well, that's nonsense! “I’m telling you the truth,” Natasha said angrily. – I came to ask what to do, and you tell me: “nonsense”...
The Countess shrugged.
“If it’s true that Monsieur Denisov proposed to you, then tell him that he’s a fool, that’s all.”
“No, he’s not a fool,” Natasha said offendedly and seriously.
- Well, what do you want? You are all in love these days. Well, you’re in love, so marry him! – the countess said, laughing angrily. - With God blessing!
- No, mom, I’m not in love with him, I must not be in love with him.
- Well, tell him so.
- Mom, are you angry? You’re not angry, my dear, what’s my fault?
- No, what about it, my friend? If you want, I’ll go and tell him,” said the countess, smiling.
- No, I’ll do it myself, just teach me. Everything is easy for you,” she added, responding to her smile. - If only you could see how he told me this! After all, I know that he didn’t mean to say this, but he said it by accident.
- Well, you still have to refuse.
- No, don't. I feel so sorry for him! He is so cute.
- Well, then accept the offer. “And then it’s time to get married,” the mother said angrily and mockingly.
- No, mom, I feel so sorry for him. I don't know how I'll say it.
“You don’t have anything to say, I’ll say it myself,” said the countess, indignant that they dared to look at this little Natasha as if she were big.
“No, no way, I myself, and you listen at the door,” and Natasha ran through the living room into the hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair, by the clavichord, covering his face with his hands. He jumped up at the sound of her light steps.

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Birthday: 13.09.1935

Zodiac sign: Pig, Virgo ♍

Born on September 13, 1935 in Kirov. Father, Anatoly Nikolaevich, is a mechanic worker, mother, Militsa Alekseevna, is a medical laboratory assistant. The paternal great-grandfather, Mikhail Ivanovich, came from hereditary nobles of the St. Petersburg province, rose to the rank of colonel of the Maloyaroslavsky regiment, retired and settled in Vyatka.

Albert (Gleb) Likhanov was born in Kirov, graduated from school there, and went to Sverdlovsk, where in 1958 he graduated from the journalism department of the Ural State University. Returning to Kirov, he works as a literary staff member for the Kirovskaya Pravda newspaper. In 1960, he becomes not only a witness, but also a participant in the story that formed the basis of the story “Good Intentions.” Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper "Komsomolskoe Plyamya" in Kirov (1961-1964). He leaves for Western Siberia for two years, where he works as his own correspondent for the newspaper " TVNZ"in Novosibirsk (1964-1966), which was later reflected in the story "Flood".

While still in Kirov, he tried himself in literature, the first story “ Shagreen leather"(1962) was published in the magazine "Youth". Almost simultaneously, he becomes a participant in the IV All-Union Meeting of Young Writers in the seminar of the classic of children's literature Lev Kassil.

Later, Albert Likhanov is invited to work in Moscow. Then he becomes a long-term employee of the popular youth magazine “Smena” - first as the executive secretary, and then, for more than thirteen years, as the editor-in-chief.

During these years, literary fame came to him. One after another, Yunost publishes his stories.

The Young Guard publishing house publishes Selected Works in 2 volumes (1976), and then the first collected works in 4 volumes (1986-1987).

All the years of his literary formation, A. A. Likhanov interfaced with social activities - he was elected secretary of the Moscow Writers' Union, a member of the Board of the Writers' Union of the USSR and the RSFSR, president of the Association of Literature and Art Workers for Children and Youth of the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies and cultural connection With foreign countries(SSOD).

After Likhanov’s letters to the authorities in 1985 and 1987, Decrees of the USSR Government were adopted on assistance to orphans. In 1987, on his initiative, the Soviet Children's Fund named after V.I. Lenin was created, which in 1992 was transformed into the International Association of Children's Funds, and in 1991 the Russian Children's Fund was established. Both of these public organizations and is headed by writer A. A. Likhanov.

In 1989, the writer was elected People's Deputy of the USSR and a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He is given the opportunity, on behalf of the USSR, to express his attitude towards the draft Universal Convention on the Rights of the Child, to speak at the Third Main Committee of the UN during the final consideration of this draft, and then to participate in the ceremonial session of the General Assembly of the United Nations at the signing of this Convention as the deputy head of the Soviet delegation (head was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR E. A. Shevardnadze).

Returning to Moscow, Likhanov is doing a lot of work to prepare this important document for ratification. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR ratified the Convention, and it came into force on June 13, 1990. Later, all the republics that were part of the USSR, having received the status of independent states, confirmed the legality of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on their territories.

Likhanov also founded and headed the Scientific Research Institute of Childhood, created the literary club “Molodost” for aspiring authors, created the publishing house “Dom”, the magazines “We” for teenagers and “Tram” for kids, and subsequently the magazines “Guiding Star. School reading", "God's World", "Children of Man", "Foreign Novel". Opened the publishing, educational and cultural center “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth". On his initiative, a children's rehabilitation center of the International Association of Children's Funds was created in the Moscow region. In the Belgorod region there is an orphanage in the regional center of Rovenki, built with the financial participation of the Russian Children's Fund and also named after him. In Kirov there is a library for children and youth named after Albert Likhanov. The Albert Likhanov Children's Library operates in the city of Shakhty, Rostov Region, and the Belgorod Regional Children's Library has been given the status of "A. A. Likhanov's Library".

His works have been published in Russia in 30 million copies. Back in 1979, the publishing house "Young Guard" published "Favorites" in 2 volumes. In 1986-1987, the same publishing house published collected works in 4 volumes with a circulation of 150 thousand copies. In 2000, the Terra publishing house published a collection of works in 6 volumes. In 2005, the “Library “Love and Remember” was published in 20 books. And in 2010, “Terra” published a new collection of works in 7 volumes. In the same year, 2010, the publishing, educational and cultural center “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth” published a collection of works for children and youth by Albert Likhanov in 15 volumes with color illustrations and large print. In 2014-2015, the same publishing house released the novel "Russian Boys" in the form of a cycle of 11 large-format and high-quality illustrated books. In 2015, the publishing house "Knigovek" published collected works in 10 volumes

In the Belgorod region (since 2000) and in the Kirov region (since 2001), annual Likhanov social-literary and literary-pedagogical readings are held, in which many children, parents, teachers, creative intelligentsia, and the public take part. In the Kirov region, the Albert Likhanov Prize was established for librarians of school, children's and rural libraries. For elementary school teachers, he established a prize named after his first teacher, A. N. Teplyashina, who taught him during the war and was awarded two Orders of Lenin. At the initiative of the writer, a memorial plaque was installed for her. 106 books by the writer have been published abroad in Russia in 34 languages.

Corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR (1990), academician of the Russian Academy of Education (2001).

Honorary citizen of the city of Kirov, honorary citizen of the Kirov region.

Creation.

In 1962 he published his first story “Shagreen Skin” in Yunost, and in 1963 he published the historical story “Let there be sunshine!” The main theme of Likhanov’s work is the development of a teenager’s character, the formation of his worldview, and relationships with the adult world: the stories “Stars in September” (1967), “Warm Rain” (1968), the trilogy “Family Circumstances” (the novel “Labyrinth”, 1970, stories “Clean Pebbles”, 1967, “Deception”, 1973), novel for children younger age“My General” (1975), the stories “Calvary”, “Good Intentions”, “The Highest Measure” (1982), the book “Dramatic Pedagogy” (1983), a duology of novels in the stories “Russian Boys” and “Men’s School”, stories more recently “Nobody”, “Broken Doll”, “Flights” and a “paired portrait” of tragic childhood - the stories “The Boy Who Doesn’t Hurt” and “The Girl Who Doesn’t Care” (2009).

The first collected works in 4 volumes were published in 1986-87 (“Young Guard”). In 2000 - in 6 volumes (Terra, Moscow). In 2005 - “Albert Likhanov’s Library “Love and Remember”, which included 20 non-standardly designed books (“Childhood. Adolescence. Youth”). In 2010 - a collection of works for children and youth in 15 volumes (“Childhood. Adolescence . Youth") and a collection of works in 7 volumes ("Knigovek") as a supplement to the magazine "Ogonyok".

The period of maturation of Likhanov’s talent can be roughly designated as 1967-1976. At this time, he created such significant works as the novel “Labyrinth”, the stories “Clean Pebbles”, “Deception”, “Solar Eclipse” and others. The theme of the formation of the younger generation becomes the main one in his work. The writer pays special attention to the role of family and school in raising a child and in shaping his character.

Likhanov wrote a number of wonderful works about his wartime childhood. The military theme in the writer’s work acquires special significance and organicity, because it embodies his ideas about life values, about honor, duty, feat, and human dignity. Works about wartime childhood were created by the writer on a life basis - the memory of his childhood. In them, the author conveys the feeling of what he experienced during the Great Patriotic War. Publicism, passion, truthfulness are characteristic features of Likhanov’s style in all literary genres. One of the most dramatic works about wartime childhood is the story “The Last Cold” (1984). This story, the stories “The Store of Beloved Aids” and “Children’s Library”, the novel “Men’s School”, form a kind of literary cycle about wartime childhood. Likhanov touches on the military theme both in the story “Military Echelon” and in the novel “My General”. In the writer’s books, the author’s personality is felt; it manifests itself primarily in the pathos of his work, in the way he relates to moral quest heroes, to their uncontrollable desire to find themselves, to discover the best in themselves.

1970-1990 - the period of Likhanov’s active writing activity. He publishes works of various genres, addressed to readers of different ages. From reflections on letters from readers, the idea for a book about modern education, “Dramatic Pedagogy: Essays on Conflict Situations” (1983), was born, which has been translated into many languages. For this book in 1987 A. A. Likhanov was awarded the International Prize named after. Janusz Korczak. Likhanov successfully combines his creativity with active social activities in defense of children.

Albert Likhanov takes an active civic position as a defender of the moral values ​​and traditions of his Fatherland, therefore he fights with the word of the writer and the deeds of the Children's Fund to preserve happiness in the life of every child, for adults to understand the problems of the younger generation.

Awards:

• Confessional awards Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (2005)
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2000)
• Order of Honor (2016)
• Order of Friendship (2010) - for many years of active social activities and the development of humanitarian cooperation
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1984)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1979)
• Order of Honor (Georgia, 1996)
• Order of Merit, III degree (Ukraine, 2006)
• Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius, 1st degree (Bulgaria, 2007)
• Order of Francis Skaryna (Republic of Belarus, 2015)
• Order of Friendship (Republic of South Ossetia, 2010)
• Order of Honor (Republic of South Ossetia, 2015)
• medals of the USSR, Armenia and Belarus
• Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education (2003) - for the creation of family orphanages
• Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of culture (2009) - for the dilogy “Russian Boys” and “Men’s School”
• State Prize of the RSFSR named after N.K. Krupskaya (1980) - for the novel “My General” and the stories “Deception” and “Solar Eclipse”
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976) - for books for children “Music”, “Family Circumstances”, “My General”
• International J. Korczak Prize (1987) - for the book “Dramatic Pedagogy” (the Prize was donated by the writer to the Polish J. Korczak Foundation)
• The international medal “Ecce Homo - Gloria Homini” (“Here is Man - Glory to Man”) was presented on March 4, 2013 in Poland at the Warsaw Royal Palace by the outstanding Polish actress Beata Tyszkiewicz and the famous public figure Stanislaw Kowalski, President of the “Hurry with Help” Foundation. The award has number 2, the first medal was awarded quite some time ago to the Minister of Health of Poland, the famous doctor Zbigniew Religa.
• The Russian Ludwig Nobel Prize (2014) was awarded on March 30, 2014 at the residence of the President of the Russian Federation - the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna.

Other:

International Maxim Gorky Prize, International Janusz Korczak Prize, French-Japanese Cultural Prize named after V. Hugo (1996), Cyril and Methodius Prize (Bulgaria, 2000), Sakura Prize (Japan, 2001), Oliver Prize (USA, 2005). Prize named after Nikolai Ostrovsky (1982), named after Boris Polevoy (1984), named after Alexander Green (2000), “Prokhorovsky Field” (2003), “Great Literary Prize of Russia” of the SPR and the “Diamonds of Russia” campaign (2002) for the novel “Nobody” "and the story "Broken Doll", prize named after D. Mamin-Sibiryak (2005), named after Vladislav Krapivin (2006), named after N. A. Ostrovsky (2007). Special Prize named after I. A. Bunin “for outstanding contribution to Russian literature for children and youth” (2008).

International Literary Prize named after. Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011), Tallinn; Russian Literary Prize named after. A. I. Herzen (2012) for the volume of social journalism “For these little ones (Letters in Defense of Childhood)”, 5th edition - the writer donated the material part of the prize to the Library for Children and Youth on Orlovskaya Street in Kirov to perpetuate the memory of A. I. Herzen, V. Zhukovsky, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin and other wonderful people who were there. On September 27, 2013, at the Republican Drama Theater of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Albert Likhanov, by Decree of the President of Bashkortostan R. Khamitov, was awarded the Russian Literary Aksakov Prize. In December 2013, he was awarded the Golden Knight award - “for outstanding contribution to children's literature.” In July 2015, the All-Russian Prize "Russian Way" named after F.I. Tyutchev was awarded.

And the writer Albert Likhanov shows with his life the path of truth. He always defended justice and tried to act on the side of the light. The life of such an idealist could not be simple, but it turned out to be very interesting and harmonious.

Childhood of a children's writer

In the small town of Kirov, on September 13, 1935, a boy was born - Albert Likhanov. His biography began the same way as that of many other children: school, clubs, books. The boy's family was generally the most ordinary; only one circumstance distinguished its history - among its ancestors there were hereditary nobles who professed Christianity and baptized their children in the church. But the boy learned about these circumstances as an adult, and spent his childhood in the same way as all his peers. After school, Albert entered the journalism department of the Ural University in Sverdlovsk, he felt a desire to write, and journalism seemed to him the right direction in life.

First experiments

On literary path Likhanov gets up after graduating from university. A graduate of the journalism department in 1958, he returned to Kirov and began working for the Kirovskaya Pravda newspaper. At the same time, on the literary field of the country appears new writer for children and youth - Albert Likhanov. The stories that he sent to the editors of the magazine “Youth” were received favorably and in 1962 the work “Shagreen Skin” was published. The young author finds his audience - teenagers - and writes quite a lot. His works are distinguished by subtle psychologism, vitality and social acuity.

Professional path

Real literary fame came to the writer in the 70s. At this time, Albert Likhanov became one of the most popular authors for young people, whose biography develops in two directions: he writes and also works in the media. The writer's stories were published in the magazine "Yunost" in the 1970s; he honed his style, becoming a real mature author. In total, the writer has written 106 books to date; they have been published in more than 30 million copies. In 2005, a 20-volume collected works of Albert Likhanov was published. In addition, collected works of the author were published three more times in Russia. Albert Likhanov, whose books have been translated into 34 languages ​​of the world, also achieved international recognition.

As a journalist, Likhanov worked for some time at Komsomolskaya Pravda in Novosibirsk, then he was invited to Moscow, to the very popular magazine Smena, where he would work for 20 years, 13 of them as editor-in-chief. During the years of perestroika, Likhanov became the head of the Children's Fund, which was created on his initiative, and heads it quite successfully to the present day. He was also among the founders of the Research Institute of Childhood, of which he still serves as permanent director.

Literary achievements

The success of a writer is assessed by his works, and Albert Likhanov is no exception, whose books have been read by several generations of young people. His most famous creations are the stories “Clean Pebbles”, “Deception”, “Calvary”, “Good Intentions”, “The Highest Measure”, “Innocent Secrets”, “Flood”, “Nobody”, the trilogy “Good Intentions”, “Russians” boys" - a novel in stories and a novel-duology about the war "Men's School".

Social, rather tough prose is what makes Albert Likhanov stand out. “Broken Doll” - an acutely social story that shook the country - is shining example powerful talent as a writer.

Likhanov’s works were repeatedly filmed, for example, the films “Family Circumstances”, “Good Intentions” and “The Supreme Measure” were able to convey the spirit of the writer’s prose and contribute to the education of young people. In total, 8 works of the author were filmed.

For your literary works and social activities, Likhanov has repeatedly received awards from the different levels, he received 11 different orders, including the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship and "For Services to the Fatherland, III degree", 8 major awards and a number of medals.

Social activity

A man with a caring heart - this title was given to Albert Likhanov, whose biography is closely connected with various socially significant activities. He always acted as a defender of children and devoted a lot of time and effort to this. At his insistence, a Children's Fund appeared in the USSR, which to this day carries out a variety of charitable activities.

In 1989, Likhanov was elected People's Deputy of the USSR and he joined the work on the Universal Convention on the Rights of the Child. He also participates in the UN meeting at which this document is adopted. Later, he would make a lot of efforts to ratify the Convention in the USSR.

In addition, Likhanov is active in the Writers' Union, working as secretary and member of the organization's board. He actively supports young writers - for this purpose, a club for young authors “Molodist”, a publishing house for aspiring writers “Dom”, as well as five magazines for children and teenagers have been created. He establishes special awards for teachers and children's libraries.

The writer does a lot for disadvantaged children; on his initiative, the Children's Fund is building several houses for orphans. Several libraries for children and youth have been opened, and special publications for children have been published.

Albert Likhanov also meets with different people who come to him with their troubles. The writer tries to help everyone.

Private life

If there are people with a harmonious destiny, then a striking example of this is Albert Likhanov, whose biography combines creativity, professional activity, social activity and family life. The writer has a strong rear; his wife Lidiya Aleksandrovna, a former television announcer, shares her husband’s interests and supports him in all his endeavors. They have a son, Dmitry, who followed in his father’s footsteps and became a journalist and writer. True, he chose literature for adults for himself, but in this area he represents his name with dignity. The family lives by common interests, and this is probably one of the secrets of Albert Likhanov’s love of life and optimism.

When the news reports that Albert Likhanov is 80 years old, it’s hard to believe, because he is cheerful and young at heart. He continues to meet with readers, conduct social activities and write; he infects with energy, optimism and faith in people.

Albert Anatolyevich Likhanov is a writer, journalist, chairman of the Russian Children's Fund, president of the International Association of Children's Funds, director of the Childhood Research Institute, academician of several academies, honorary citizen of Kirov and the Kirov region.

Albert Anatolyevich Likhanov was born on September 13, 1935 in the city of Kirov. His father was a mechanic, his mother worked as a nurse. a laboratory assistant in a hospital, and during the war years - in a hospital. In 1953 he entered the Ural State University in Sverdlovsk at the journalism department.

In 1958, after graduating from the university, Albert Likhanov returned to Kirov, where he worked as a literary employee of the Kirovskaya Pravda newspaper, and since 1961 he headed the editorial office of the Komsomolskoe Plyamya newspaper. His first book, “About the Noble Queen, Golden Grains and Warm Hearts,” was published in Kirov in 1959.

In 1963, a book was published, with which the writer traces his creative beginnings. "Let there be sunshine!" - this is a story about Italian artist XIX century Elviro Andriolli. Then he leaves for Western Siberia, where he works as his own correspondent for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper for two years, then he is transferred to the apparatus of the Komsomol Central Committee. Since 1975, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Smena magazine (he worked in this magazine for 20 years, 13 of them as editor-in-chief).

Working in the youth press enriched the writer with the necessary experience, introduced him to problems, and forced him to “get into the thick of things” that live with young people and teenagers in our country. Having once turned to this topic, Likhanov remained faithful to it throughout his entire life. creative life. "His main theme and the audience, says the writer, I consider teenagers. This emerging person requires deep reflection. We must write about him and for him.”

The period of maturation of Likhanov’s talent can be roughly designated as 1967-1976. At this time, he created such significant works as the novel “Labyrinth”, the stories “Clean Pebbles”, “Deception”, “Solar Eclipse”, etc. The theme of the formation of the younger generation becomes the main one in his work. The writer pays special attention to the role of family and school in raising a child and in shaping his character.

In 1987, Albert Likhanov organized the Children's Fund with branches in all republics, territories and regions of the USSR, and now in Russia and the CIS, and all of them are currently operating. Here are just some of the projects on which the organization constantly works: “Warm Home”, “Children’s Library”, “Gift of Life”, “Childhood Diabetes”, “Cerebral Palsy”, “Deaf Children”. He also came up with the idea of ​​​​creating family orphanages.

Albert Likhanov takes an active civic position as a defender of the moral values ​​and traditions of his Fatherland, therefore he fights with the word of the writer and the deeds of the Children's Fund to preserve happiness in the life of every child, for adults to understand the problems of the younger generation.

Now A. Likhanov is the chairman of the board of the Russian Children's Fund, president of the International Association of Children's Funds, academician Russian Academy Education, Director of the Childhood Research Institute. His books have been published in over 30 million copies.

The creative and social-pedagogical activities of Albert Likhanov have been awarded numerous awards: the State Prize of Russia, the Lenin Komsomol Prize, the International Prize named after M. Gorky, the International Prize named after Janusz Korczak, the International Cultural Prize named after Victor Hugo, the prize named after N. Ostrovsky, named after B. Polevoy, Great Literary Prize of Russia, Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education.