Konetsky V.V. (1929-2002), writer

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KONETSKY Viktor Viktorovich (1929, Leningrad - 2002, St. Petersburg) writer. He survived the first winter of the siege in Leningrad and was evacuated together with his mother and brother in the spring of 1942. He graduated from the Faculty of Navigation of the First Baltic Highest Military Naval College in 1952; he served at the Northern Fleet in 1952-55; he joined his literary work with a career of a professional sailor after the demobilization in 1955. He had publications in the anthology Young Leningrad from 1956, in the journals Zvezda and Neva etc.; the first collection by Konetsky, Draft, was published in Leningrad in 1957; the story Tomorrow Cares made him popular (1961). The artistic world of Konetsky was more and more drawn towards free genre forms with the key autobiographical image of the narrator developing as the years passed (Novel Wandering, For a Benevolent Hope, 1977, including the books Salty Ice, Among Myths and Reeves, Sea Dreams) were marked by the purity of moral ideals, deep inner dramatic tension of plot collisions and a bitterly humorous attitude to life. The fates of many heroes of Konetsky are closely connected with Leningrad. Topographic accuracy goes with refined rendering of emotional colour of the city landscapes in his works. He is the author of the film scripts Striped Voyage (1961, together with A. Y. Kapler; directed by V. A. Fetin), the Way to the Berth (1962, together with the director G. N. Danelia) etc. He lived on 36 Lenina Street. He was buried in Smolenskoe cemetery.

References: Файнберг Р. И. Виктор Конецкий: Очерк творчества. Л., 1980; Кузьмичев И. С. Мечтатели и старатели: Лит. портреты. СПб., 1992. С. 273-290.

D. N. Cherdakov. Danelia Georgy Nikolaevich
Fetin Vladimir Alexandrovich
Kapler Alexey Yakovlevich
Konetsky Boris Ivanovich
Lenina St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 36
Файнберг Р. И. Виктор Конецкий: Очерк творчества. Л., 1980
Кузьмичев И. С. Мечтатели и старатели: Лит. портр. СПб., 1992 Zvezda (The Star), journal
Neva, journal