Smolich biography

Born on July 8 according to the old style - June 25 in Sofievka near the city of Uman of the Cherkasy region in a family of teachers. Here, in Zhmerinka, in the year, Yuri Smolich graduated from a gymnasium during this time due to crossings, he changed four gymnasiums and entered the Kiev Commercial Institute at the Faculty of Commerce and Technology. But, having studied a little less than a year, in the year, he threw his studies and went as a nurse in a volunteer detachment to combat typhoid.

Then he was a clerk of the Podolsk District Council of the Ukrainian Red Cross partnership and from a year-an actor in the Red Army Studio Theater. Until a year, he tried to make a career as an artist in the theaters of Ukrprofsoyuz, popular education and named after Ivan Frank, and then for four years he was an inspector of theaters of the chief -alcohol of the People's Commissariat of the Ukrainian SSR.

After that, he completely switched to literature. Yuri Smolich wrote in Ukrainian. Plot from the year. The first published book - a collection of stories "The End of the City beyond the market" The first novel by Smolich "Last Agevud" appeared in the year. This book, as well as the collection "Beautiful Disaster", Roman Pampflet "Forty-Eight hours" differ in an acute anti-capitalist orientation; Yu.

Smolich acted in them as one of the creators of the adventure and science fiction genre in Ukrainian literature. Then, being in gg. He wrote a lot and diversely-social, scientific, fantastic and household novels, novels, stories. In the satirical books “One and a half people”, “Fake Melpomen”, “On the other side of the heart”, Ukrainian nationalists and their foreign patrons are exposed.

In the pre -war years, he also published the autobiographical trilogy "Our Secrets", "Childhood", "Eighteen -year -old" his plays were put in Ukrainian and Moscow theaters, and in the year he was elected deputy chairman of the Kharkov organization a chairman of the year. He edited the "Literary Journal", the magazine "Ukraine" in the Great Patriotic War Yu.

Smolich did not participate because of his bad vision. He was evacuated to Alma-Ata and in these years wrote a large number of stories collected in eight collections, and also performed in Ukrainian and Russian newspapers with journalistic articles. The struggle with the Nazi invaders is revealed in the novels "They did not pass", "We were together in battle", in several collections of articles and stories.

After the Great Patriotic War ended, he worked as a correspondent of Izvestia’s newspaper in Ukraine, worked as a member of the Committee on returning to his homeland from a year in Berlin, and from a year until his death he was the chairman of the Society of Cultural Relations with Ukrainians abroad. His many novels reflected those historical and social events that were the present for the author: the years of the formation of socialism after the revolution, the difficult time of the Great Patriotic War and the everyday life of the country's restoration after its end, the struggle of the Ukrainian people for the approval of the Soviet regime.

The theme of the work of the people in the post -war years occupies a leading place in the books “after the war”, “The day begins early”, “On good in people” together with M. Rylsky, the novels “Dawn over the sea”, “The world of the huts, war to palaces”, “The Dnieper Wide Rooishes the struggle of the Ukrainian people against a broad historical background. In recent years, he wrote several books of memoirs, such as, for example, the three -volume story of the College of Works of Yuri Smolich, four times in Ukrainian - in 4 volumes in Kharkov, in 6 volumes in Kyiv, in 6 volumes in Kyiv and in Kyiv his works were translated into many languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR and a dozen and a dozen foreign languages.

He lived in Kyiv. He died on August 26.

He was buried in Kyiv at the Baykov cemetery. He was awarded the Order of Lenin by his name a street and a library in the Moscow district of the city of Kyiv. Memorial boards are installed in Kyiv and Kharkov, on the houses where the writer lived at different times.