Biography Topilin

Krasnoyarsk Territory, Kuraginsky district, p. Chibizk "I am writing about the taiga, about Siberia, about life." There were few colors, the paints were in a bit pure, the drawings were simple and clear, their plots are simple ... ”V. Shalamov Siberian writer Vladimir Topilin-a man with a hard fate. The owner of the diploma “For courage and power of the spirit” and honorary titles “The People's Hero of the United Krasnoyarsk Territory -” and “Man of the Year -”.

So his fellow countrymen decided, giving Vladimir Topilin the largest number of votes in the nomination "Intellectual Property". The man Taiga Vladimir was born on February 12 in the village of Chibizk Kuraginsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In those days, his parents worked at the mine: Mom Lyudmila Matveevna - a nurse, and father Stepan Gavrilovich - a driver. Stepan Gavrilovich was a hereditary hunter, and from childhood he taught Vladimir to understand nature.

He, along with his son, went to the forest, which began immediately behind the gardens. From an early age, Vladimir Topilin studied animal behavior, knew many herbs and plants, as well as all hunting trails mastered by his father. Childhood and youthful years of Vladimir have always been closely connected with the beautiful, and at the same time the harsh nature of the taiga.

As a child, Vladimir dreamed of becoming a driver and did not even think about the profession of the “writer”. However, the young Topilin always had a craving for writing, and this is what he was different from his peers. He really loved to listen to the stories of experienced taiga. After school, Topilin studied at the Minusinsk agricultural college, and he was in the find in the find in the sea units of the border troops.

In the Navy, he met his future friends. Volodya in the service was Coca - an instructor. Started with a simple coca. Perfectly prepared young people. He is conscientious, decent, a real ship comrade! In the year after service in the Far East, Vladimir returned to his native village of Chibizk, where he got a job at the mine. But even after the army, he did not leave his favorite business - taiga fishing.

In July, when he was 29 years old, a tragic case occurred with Topilin, dividing his life into “before” and “after”. During the hunt, he guarded the beast on the hunting platform. Wooden beams were rotten and could not stand the load. Vladimir fell from a height and lost his consciousness from severe pain. When he came to his senses, he realized that he did not feel his legs.

So, so pleasing to fate, ”Vladimir recalls his first thoughts. His hands still moved. When he woke up, he really wanted to drink. Not far from it lay a one and a half -liter bottle of water. He chose one of the sticks and he managed to pull the bottle to him. But the water did not satisfy, but only increased thirst. The next day it started to rain. The jets of water poured around, but it was impossible to get drunk.

It was difficult to hope for help, because before going to the taiga, he was going to go in one way, which he told his wife, but then he changed the route. We searched for him in a completely different side. Topilin found only on the fifth day unfamiliar hunters. At first they delivered topin to the village, and from there they took to the hospital. It turned out that his spine was broken - in three places.

Vladimir Topilin made several operations. The neurosurgeon in the regional center did not give any guarantees for the fact that he would survive. But the young organism fought. And nearby were relatives, friends and acquaintances who helped and supported. The restoration after the fall was long and difficult, but, in spite of everything, Vladimir Topilin survived.

And even being in a wheelchair, hardened by taiga nature, he was not going to give up. It was after this tragedy, left alone with his thoughts, that Vladimir decided that he would share stories about life in the taiga with his readers. In this he was helped by his mother, who gathered all his old diaries, where her son from childhood kept a record of what was happening around, recorded conversations with loved ones, his thoughts, impressions of nature.

After reading his diaries, he began to embody dreams and desires into reality - he began to write in order to publish all his notes. At first these were small stories for themselves, for the daughter, maybe for neighbors. He did not think that all this would go beyond the limits of his native village. We simply pulled out a flask with Braga from the house, threw it into the body and went on - about this and my first story was, ”recalls Vladimir Topilin.

Such short stories have a whole library.

And soon his first story “When Edelweiss Blooms” was printed. It turned out to publish this first story thanks to the publishing house "The letter". For many years, Vladimir trusted his work only to the collective of this publishing house. Thanks to their joint work, the novels “Tears of the Black River”, “Seven Forgotten Perevals”, “The Daughter of the Gray Belogory”, “Taiga Blood”, “Country of Sobolinka”, “The Baby Trees' Path” and others were published.

Vladimir draws the plots of his books from real events that took place in different years.For example, “in the years there were very large snow, and then, few people know that almost the entire number of wild ungulates died here on the spot. In the snow, the beast was drowning, a demon, poaching was terrible. The animals stood on Osinova Gora, they drove them, chopped them with an ax and sold literally a kilogram per ruble.

It was a terrible tragedy, ”the author says about his book“ Seven Forgotten Perevals ”. Each book of the author of Topilin traces the connection and continuity of generations, and the theme of “fathers and children” is acutely affected. On the Internet, on the motives of his books, several documentary projects have been created. Over time, Topilin began to appear sponsors that began to help him with the realization of his new plans.

Part of the money was helped by loved ones, friends, relatives. The new works of Vladimir found their reader. In the year, an initiative group on the publication and reprinting of the books of Vladimir Topilin arose. This group includes a cover designer, an artist, a presenter, a departure operator. This is his main team. Siberia is powerful, Siberia is rich in both people, and, of course, by nature, which amazes the imagination by its scale!

Almost all of Vladimir’s books are written on the basis of real events in the history of Siberia and what is happening in our time. These are the stories of hunters, Old Believers, gold miners, pioneers and ordinary inhabitants from the Siberian hinterland. From the novels and stories of Vladimir Topilin, one can learn about the history of dispossession and collectivization in general, about robber attacks on merchants in wolf logs, about the development of gold mines, about the possibility of surviving the Siberian taiga in the harsh conditions, in particular.

In the books of Vladimir, truth, sincere and real images of people, contemporaries, their daily lives are lurking. That is why they are so popular. In the center of all the stories of Vladimir Topilin is an ordinary person. It is he who presents the main danger to the taiga, he is the same “beast” that can destroy it. Her life depends on the lifestyle of a person who is in the taiga.

I just write, and the choice of a person is already to read or not. ” Topilin in Vladimir Topilin is divided into two periods for a year. This is the time when he does not go anywhere - in winter, in early spring and late autumn - then he writes his works. And the rest of the time when he travels and meets with readers. Usually, all meetings begin to prepare six months before departure, cities are determined, all conditions are agreed.

Topilin's friend Viktor Veselov finds contacts of libraries, educational institutions, goes to preliminary meetings to look at the sites. The implementation of all the ideas of friends does not force oneself to wait long. The books of Vladimir Topilin, with the help of his friends, fall into the largest network "Top Book". The first meetings with readers in Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk region were a great success-famous writer for arrival managed to visit five to six libraries.

Vladimir’s books are interesting to people of any age. With creative evenings, he managed to visit the Altai and Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Kemerovo and Omsk regions, the Irkutsk and Novosibirsk regions. Many of his readers and among fellow soldiers - border guards. Reading the books of Vladimir Topilin, each person feels part of the immense, multifaceted and still unknown nature.

Our swift time, full of everyday worries, dictates to us such a pace of life when we just run ahead, without looking around and not noticing the most important around us. And the most important thing is our home, our small homeland. The place where our ancestors were born, where we were born.