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Title of Article

OKTYABR? LEONOV: MATERIALS FOR A CREATIVE BIOGRAPHY


Issue
1
Date
2022

Section
ARCHIVE

Article type
scientific article
UDC
82.0
Pages
91-100
Keywords
Октябрь Леонов, Олег Куваев, Альберт Мифтахутдинов, «Ангарская деревня», October Leonov, Oleg Kuvaev, Albert Miftakhutdinov, Angarsk Village


Abstract
Oktyabr? Mikhailovich Leonov (October 26, 1929 - November 4, 1979) is known primarily as the founder of the architectural and ethnographic museum Angarsk Village which preserved the monuments of wooden architecture of the Angara region. He is also the discoverer of the famous sight - Dubyninsky pisanitsy - rock carvings the age of which according to some estimates, is about six thousand years old. However Leonov was also a talented essayist writer whose books were not published during the author's lifetime for reasons of ideological order only now began to find their way to the reader (in 2014 for example Leonov's book Fifteen hundred kilometers of Thoughts: Travel Notes was published in Bratsk). This article was created on the basis of studying archival materials related to the life and work of Oktyabr? Leonov and numerous interviews taken by the author from people who not only knew Leonov intimately but also were his associates in his museum ethnographic and archaeological endeavors. The information concerning the views of Leonov on the Soviet government the official version of Marxism is introduced into scientific circulation. Attention is also paid to various twists and turns associated with the membership of Leonov in the CPSU. Some information sheds light on those episodes of the biography of Leonov that preceded his move to Bratsk. Other information reveals details of Leonova's struggle to create the Angarsk Village. But the biggest place in the article is devoted to the relationship of October Leonov with such major Soviet writers as Oleg Kuvaev and Albert Miftakhutdinov.

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