The work of Andrei Sergeevich Zelenin is widely known not only in his small homeland, in the Perm Territory, but throughout Russia. He is also a playwright with a capital letter, a professional editor, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, a member of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation.
Biography
Writer childhood
Andrei Sergeevich Zelenin was born on January 21, 1969 in the Ural city of Perm. While studying at secondary school No. 68, he showed creativity, writing at the age of seven the first poem and composing fairy tales. In the fifth grade, he wrote an unusual poem composition that sounded on the regional radio. The boy Andrei Zelenin was in time not only in the literary field, but also in the music field, mastering the button accordion class in children's music school No. 4.
Youth
After graduation, the future poet entered the faculty of zoo engineering at the State Agricultural Institute named after the Russian agricultural chemist Dmitry Nikolaevich Pryanishnikov in his native city of Perm. He served in the Soviet Army, in the construction troops.
Creative career
After graduating from the institute and receiving higher education, the future playwright worked in difficult and harmful working conditions - an air separation apparatchik. Managed the air separation process, serviced the installation equipment at the Sergey Mironovich Kirov plant, while collaborating with local newspapers and magazines. In one thousand eighty-nine, while working in school number 30, he composed the institution's anthem, and it became the first printed publication. Constantly wrote plays for the Perm Puppet Theater, created in one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seventh. The reconstruction of the building was completed in 1959. After that, the transit castle acquired its modern look and the puppet theater moved into it. The main charm of the building is the large, beautifully equipped stage with Shakespearean exits and balconies: they lead to the stage, under the stage and behind the stage. A scene can rise, fall and change in different forms. This is a merit of the People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Vladimirovich Obraztsov. It was he who during perestroika helped with his advice. The first performance based on the works of A. Zelenin was staged at this historical puppet theater. This event occurred in one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight. But another performance, staged in two thousand and two, was noted not only by the audience, but also by critics.
From the year 2000, Andrei Sergeyevich was the head of the Club of Young Storytellers of the Perm Regional Children's Library named after Lev Ivanovich Kuzmin, in which children learned to pick up a rhyme, invented stories, broke long words into several short ones. Within the walls of the Club, works of young authors were born.
Since the two thousand and ten years Zelensky was appointed director of the literary agency Lukomorye of the regional public organization of the Union of Writers of Russia, the countdown of which is considered to be 1935, when the first members of the Union of Writers of the USSR appeared: Andrei Nikiforovich Zubov, Mikhail Pavlovich Likhachev, Boris Nikolaevich Mikhailov. Today, the regional organization of the Writers' Union has united prose writers and poets in their ranks, which have a serious influence on the literary process with works of fiction, poetry, and journalism.
Bibliography
The writer has published more than forty books that are read from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok; there are copies in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Italy, the USA, and Scotland. Several tales have been translated into English and German. The author’s portfolio contains several dozen books for children of preschool and school age. Most Popular:
- "Planet on the palm, or Blossomed, unbelted, sloven!";
- "My native Vaska";
- "Koryushkin. Fictional stories";
- "A story about Petka Yozhikov from the third" B ", or Cats also know how to talk";
- "Koryushkin. Summer without parents";
- "A piece of the sun";
- "The Adventures of Chipmunk and Chizhik."
Author's tales of Andrei Zelenin
In the plots and actions of fairy tales, the children's writer used the principles of similarity with reality and connection with the past.
- "The Tale of Two Silly Cats";
- "How the wood grouse cured a fox";
- "How a man’s fox deceived";
- "The tale of a hare who wore a fox coat";
- "How the foxes were driven out of the forest";
- "About the bear and the fox and about the New Year in the forest";
- "The tale of a clever crow, a cunning fox and a stupid wolf";
- "A tale about how Ginger - a mushroom cunning, but a fox - did not deceive";
- "Like a fox and a wolf visiting";
- "About the grumpy old woman and the king - His Majesty";
- "The tale of a hare who wore a fox coat";
- "How a bear fox treated."
Awards and Achievements
- Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Education of the Perm Territory.
- Member of the Union of Writers of Russia - 1999;
- Prize to them. A.F. Merzlyakova - 2000;
- In 2003, the name of Andrei Zelensky was included in the encyclopedia "Great Russia. Names";
- Member of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation since 2007;
- Cavalier of the Order named after F.M. Dostoevsky 3rd degree - 2011;
- Cavalier of the Order named after F.M. Dostoevsky 2nd degree - 2014;
- Laureate of the All-Russian Literary Prize named after D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak - 2015;
- Laureate of the Perm Regional Prize in the field of culture and art - 2015.
