Sergey Kiryukhin Biography

In early December, the famous Syzran poet and bard, a member of the Writers of Russia, Sergei Kiryukhin, turned 70. Our correspondent on the eve met with the anniversary and asked him several questions. What brought you to poetry? He overcame all the working categories. And after the evening faculty of the Syzran branch of the KPTI, he also passed through all the steps, from an ordinary engineer to the director of the plant.

My parents are my father - Shakhtar, my mother worked in a bookstore was very fond of reading. And I am grateful to my teachers of literature. It is not for nothing that our school has already given two members of the Russian Writers Union, my classmate - poet Natalya Okuneva. What worries and excites me, which makes me rejoice and empathize. From these emotions, landscape and love lyrics, poems on social, civilian topics, including war, are born.

Romance of travel, meeting and communication is also mine. Once, in a conversation with a prose -famous prose writer Nikolai Ovchinnikov, the writer’s task is to convey our era to subsequent generations truthfully and indicatively, without hiding anything. And there, they say, they will figure it out ... - When did you write your first poem? It was sunny. Above the fields and in the groves, like a fog, smoke poured ...

peat. I don’t know what found me, and where these four lines came from: silent sadness lies on the fields. Autumn swims under the Perspivist of the tits ... And the leaves yellow drop poplars, and the cranes are carried away from us ... short. I really like it. But actually, I began to rhyme somewhere from nine years ... Then we practiced schools with a friend of childhood, describing the course of lessons in rhymes ...-What are the main achievements in this field?

He published four copyright poetic collections. Adopted to the Union of Writers of Russia. Of course, there are a lot of creative plans, but a lot of time is spent on public work. This, by the way, is interconnected, and nothing can be done here. Why do you need this? Does it help in life? Indeed, the load is large: the deputy head of the Syzran branch of the Writers of Russia, the chairman of the board of the city writing organization, a member of the editorial and public council under the head of the city was a member of the Public Council at the City Duma ...

This means that it is necessary to organize various events: literary festivals, concerts of the author’s song and performances of poets, thematic evenings at various venues in the city. Despite the fact that I myself participate in many of them. I perform not only in Syzran, but also in Togliatti, Samara, Zhigulevsk, Ulyanovsk, in the areas of the Samara region and so on. Social activity helps me and my comrades in Peru and the guitar to implement our creative plans.

Of course, without the support of the leadership of the city, the deputy corps of all levels, philanthropists and sponsors, it would be not only difficult, but ... you understand. And for his activity he was awarded one of the highest awards of his native Syzran - “For Merit to the City” of the second degree and others. And later he learned that Vladimir Vysotsky, the author of the term “author’s song”, said that these were poems performed under a rhythmic basis, under the guitar in this case.

Since the year with the approval and recommendations of the famous bard Alexander Gorodnitsky, I have never missed the Grushinsky festival every year. The author’s song gave me a completely different life that I did not know. Someone from the great said that the Bard of the Song is a philosophy of life. I agree with this statement. Of course, only positively.

And children and grandchildren, and, most importantly, my wife Lyuba, with whom we are together for about half a century. I am grateful to her endlessly. And there are friends in the USA, Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, Israel, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Belarus ... Among them are students and schoolchildren, workers and engineers, scientists and astronauts, actors and writers, manufacturers and entrepreneurs, pensioners and even homeless people, oddly enough.

I have a lot of friends in Syzran. I respect them all and love them. True, on the third of December there will be a solemn meeting in the Great Hall of the Central Library of the city. Already at the beginning of next year, of course, my author’s evening will be. I must report to my readers and listeners! And with the upcoming anniversary!