Yuri Sotnik is the author of wonderful stories for children. The heroes of his books are naughty and mischievous, but they always strive to do everything as best as possible. The instructive stories told by the writer are not only popular with children. They are read and re-read with pleasure by adults, readers wise by experience.
From the biography of Yuri Vyacheslavovich Sotnik
The future writer was born in Vladikavkaz on June 11, 1914. After some time, the boy's family moved to the capital of the USSR.
Jura wrote his first story in the fourth grade, when many of his comrades were not even given an account. Since then, he had a dream to become a writer. But before that, Yuri had to gain experience and get an education in his "life universities". After graduation, Sotnik had a lot of travel around the country. He worked as a smelter on the Siberian river Lena, was a laboratory assistant in a photo workshop. A lot of what Sotnik learned from life was subsequently reflected in his works.
In 1938, Yuri became a member of the creative association created by the publishing house "Soviet Writer". Here he began to study writing seriously.
Creativity of Yuri Sotnik
The first literary work of Sotnik was published in 1939. The story "Archimedes" by Vovka Grushin "was published in the journal" Pioneer ". A book with the same name was published a few years later. After the war ended, the writer began to compose entire cycles from his works.
In the 50-60-ies from the pen Sotnik came out stories about Lesha Tuchkov and his girlfriend Aglaya. As heroes, he chose living and immediate children. They do something wrong in life, but they are always guided by the best motives. Although they can not always predict the consequences of their actions. Yuri Sotnik is not trying to engage in moralizing. He simply demonstrates what rash acts can result in. The reader makes his own conclusions.
