Biography of Andrei Passar

His father has been engaged in hunting and fishing all his life. In years, he joined the fishing artel and became a collective farmer like all Mukhinsky fishermen - Nanais. The Passar family was famous for hospitality: they constantly had hunters in their house, especially the elderly, from whom Andrei has heard many ancient legends and legends since childhood.

Andrei went to study in the year in elementary school with. Fly, then - to the Nichinsky school, where a boarding school was opened for Nanai schoolchildren. Children's games, driving on dogs, new comrades, whom the school at one time was related - Andrei Passar will later describe in poetry about all this. But with the outbreak of war, my studies had to be left, it was necessary to help the father hunt and fish.

In the year he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army. For five years he served on the Far Eastern border, and after demobilization he returned to his native village and worked on the collective farm, while ending the seven -year -old. From the year, Andrei Alexandrovich studied at the preparatory courses of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. There he began to write his poems, discovering considerable abilities.

The first book of Andrei Passar “Sunlight” was published in the year of the Khabarovsk Book Publishing House in Nanai. At that time, he himself finished the regional cultural school in the city of his poems with great interest was first met by his countrymen - the Nanais, and then Russian readers. Having accepted the poetic relay, from the akim of Samara - the initiator of Nanai poetry - he began to gradually develop his own voice.

The verses of Andrei Alexandrovich were founded on the oral folk art of the Nanai people and are dedicated to the native land, the Amur expanses, where the fishermen work, the school where he studied once, to his mother. Soon they were translated into Russian by Leningrad and Khabarovsk poets, and then published by a separate publication. In subsequent years, the verses of Andrei Passar were published in the newspapers “Pacific Star” and “Young Far East”, in the magazines “Siberian Lights” and “The Far East”.

In the years, the poet was engaged in translations in the Nanai. For the first time, the verses of A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, V. Mayakovsky and P Komarov were translated. A year later, on the recommendation of the Khabarovsk branch of the Union of Writers, he entered the Literary Institute. Gorky G. graduating from the institute and the highest literary courses, he returned to the Far East.

In the same year, the collection “Native Amur residents” was published in Nanai in Leningrad. And in the year in the “Soviet writer” a new collection “Nanai signs” was printed. In the small parachi-strokes inspired by folklore, the author is either good-natured and soft humor, then in evil, satirical images it beats human vices. The fact that the oral work of the Nanai people, this richest treasury of folk wisdom, nourishes the work of Andrei Passar, is evidenced by many of his works.

In the year, a new collection of the poet was published in Khabarovsk - "Twelve Bear heads." He successfully worked in prose: a collection of stories “Three -fingered Wolf”, the story “The Last Camlah”, the book “The Midness of the Tiga”, “An invitation”, “The Late Turtle”, “The Voice of the Heart”, “The Voice of the Heart”, “The Tales of My Childhood”, the story “The Bubility over Deer Rogs” were published.

With a charming person, one of the best and most worthy representatives of the Nanai people who managed to do everything possible to reveal the richest national folklore of the peoples of the Amur region. Andrei Alexandrovich passed away on January 3 of the year.