Laptsui brief biography

His name is known in all corners of Yamal: 95 years have passed since the birth of the Nenets poet and prose writer Laptsuya: he would be 95 years old this year. Photo: provided by the I. Shemanovsky museum and exhibition complex, thanks to the Salekhard social activists and widow of the writer Elena Susa, in the year in the district capital the museum-apartment of L.

was preserved here the situation in which the life of the Yamal writer took place. The basis of the collection is the manuscripts and documents of the writer, the objects of furniture and life, products of applied art, painting, graphics, family photos, a home library with rare subscription publications of Russian and foreign classics. The building in which the museum-apartment is located is built in the year and belongs to objects of cultural heritage of regional significance.

Now it has a major overhaul in it. After its completion, the memorial expositions will return to their updated previous address. As Wesako became Leonid, the famous Nenets writer was born in the Yamal Tundra on February 28, in the family of a reindeer herder. At birth, he received the name Vesako - translated from Nenets "wise old man." The boy’s childhood was not easy. He was left early without his father, and in fact, became the only breadwinner and employee in the family.

He happened to be a shepherd, reindeer herder, hunter, workers of the fish factory. Since her mother was very ill, she had bone tuberculosis, she could not go fishing in cold weather. Therefore, it was replaced by a little Wesako.

We drove the mines-pronounces on the ice of the Ob lip near the new port. Their depth was above human height. Such a job, although I was beyond my power, I did not give up. " One of the most beloved hobbies was folk songs, who sang in the plague Nenets-Skazes. Wesako, holding his breath, listened to legends told by the elders. It was they who formed the basis of his work. Leonid studied at a nomadic school, then - in the seven -year -old village of a new port.

Here, the teacher-educator Daria Alekseevna Kovaleva spoke with the guys in their native language. She called Laptsuya Leonid, that was the name of her husband, the zootechnology of the Novoportovskaya tundra. The tendency to literature manifested itself in Wesako early. He began to write while still a schoolboy. In the year, he worked in the Seismological Party in the Novoportovskaya tundra, which he wrote about the essay.

After reading it, the teacher noted Leonid's literary abilities. He later studied in Moscow at the journalism department of the Central Komsomol school. He dreamed of being a doctor, but he became a writer, having matured, Leonid caught fire to become a doctor to help people. After school, in the year he became the first Nenza who entered the Salekhard Medical School at the Feldsher branch.

True, I did not have to work by profession - I outweighed a successful party career. While studying at a medical school, he meets the famous prose writer and poet Ivan Grigoryevich Istomin, who saw a great poetic gift in Lapsu. Having fallen under his influence, Leonid Vasilievich begins to write his stories and poems in the Nenets language. Later he will devote the poem - “Iri”.

In the year, Lapsuy showed I. Istomin his first story “In the Shipov Snow”, which was highly appreciated. Since that time, the literary career of Leonid quickly went up. His work on the everyday life of fishermen and reindeer herders was published in local and district newspapers, a number of stories were printed by the journal Literary Life. In them, the author describes the life of the Nenets, the nature and everyday life of Yamal.

Later, his stories appear in the magazines “Siberian Lights”, “Friendship of Peoples”, and are published in separate publications. The Shemanovsky talent of an original artist was noticed not only in the small homeland, Glory shattered throughout the country. Critics noted the pure joy of the lyrics, the special cordiality of poems about Yamal and respect for the Nenets culture, which is saturated with poetic lines.

Lapsuya was called the Nenets Yesenin - the poet’s poems were melodic and sound. He, just like Istomin, drew strength and inspiration in the nature of his native land. But the work of each writer had his own unique face, their colors enriching national northern literature. The record of the poem “Eskaika” once Lapsui set out to make a book on the extracurricular reading “Inzer Tolagobts” and saw that children's books about Yamal and the culture of the northern peoples were definitely lacking.

The writer tried to replenish the gap. At first, a new man’s poem “Edeik” came out from under his pen. And the poet was awarded the second award at the All -Russian competition for the best literary work for children. In the year, Leonid Laptsuya’s book “Eskaika” was printed in a circulation of thousands of copies in the publishing house “Children's Literature”. Following, based on folklore, Leonid Lapsui created the epic poem “Ter”, in which he portrayed the confrontation of light and dark principles ...

In total, the writer released more than 30 books. Many of his works were translated into foreign languages. In the year L.Laptsui became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Nyarayan NGERM, which came to a medical student and headed it until the last days of his life. Shemanovsky Lapsui was repeatedly elected a deputy of the District Council, since the year he was a member of the Council for the Literature of the People's Democraticities of the Far North and the Far East under the rule of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR, and also took a direct part in the creation of a primer for national schools.

In memory of the Nenets writer, they created the Museum-Quarter and called the boarding school the old man, contrary to his name, Wesako did not become. He died in the year, he was 53 years old. A boarding school in the village of New Port is his name. The building in which the Leonid Lapsuy Museum-apartment is located is built in the year and belongs to objects of cultural heritage of regional significance.

After its completion, the memorial expositions will return to their place. Shemanovsky 9.