Anatoly Anastasyev

Anastasiev Anatoly Nikolaevich

(04/21/1940 – 10/9/2017 ) poet, journalist Anatoly Anastasiev was born on April 21, 1940 in the village of Kirovoe, Beryslavsky district. After graduating from Borozen secondary school in the Velikooleksandrivsky district, he worked as a hammer miller in a village forge, served in the army. After being discharged to the reserve, he worked as an accountant at the state farm "Bolshevik Offensive", a methodologist at the Velikooleksandrivsky district House of Culture, a literary worker and head of the department of the district newspaper. He studied journalism in absentia at Kyiv State University.

He worked as a columnist for the Kherson regional newspaper “Naddnipryanska Pravda”. His newspaper publications were always sincere, frank and sharp. For a long time he held the position of editor-in-chief of the Veliko Oleksandrivka district newspaper “Holos Trudivnyka”.

Hundreds of his essays, reports, and feuilletons were published on the pages of the district newspapers of Veliko Oleksandrivka, Vysokopillya, Beryslav, Gornostayivka, and the Kherson regional newspaper “Naddnipryanska Pravda”, which testify to Anatoly Nikolaevich’s incredible efficiency and enormous creative gift.

The first poetry collection of Anatoly Anastasiev “Kosovitsya” was published in 1991. In total, the poet's creative output includes more than 10 collections of poetry and prose - "Autumn Dissonance" (2007), "Plant" and "Streams" (2008), and others. Anatoly Anastasiev's poems were published in "Literary Ukraine", in the magazines "Vitchyzna" and "Malyatko".

Many of his poems, thanks to Kherson composers V. Plakseev, M. Romanov, V. Lepeshko and others, became songs and are performed on amateur stages of cultural centers. Thus, in 2019, the sheet music collection of composer Valentin Plakseev "Songs of the Tavrian Steppes" was published. from the series "Song Treasures of Kherson Region", which included the song to the words of Anatoly Anastasiev "Still in the Wilderness the Geese Have Not Flew", and even earlier, in 1996, the song to the words of Anatoly Mykolayovych "And Believe Me" was published in the collection of works of this composer.

Anatoly Mykolayovych did not bypass the children's audience. In 2008, the Kherson branch of the publishing center "Prosvita" published a collection of poems for children "In the Magic World of Childhood", in 2009 - collection of songs by Anatoly Anastasiev and Volodymyr Lepeshko «Your dreams will come true».

Since 1992, Anatoly Anastasiev — founder and permanent chairman of the Velika Oleksandrivka district association of the All-Ukrainian society «Prosvita» named after Taras Shevchenko. Anatoly Mykolayovych lived and worked in Velika Oleksandrivka, Kherson region.

Works

• Borozenskoe - it's from under the plow... : essays / Anatoly Anastasiev ; [ed. O. V. Oleksiuk]. – Kyiv ; Kherson: Prosvita, 2008. – 55 p.
• In the Embrace of the Steppe : Selected Works / Anatoly Anastasiev ; [ed. M. I. Bratan]. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2010. – 143 p.
• In the Magical World of Childhood : [Poems for Children] / Anatoly Anastasiev ; [ed. O. V. Oleksiuk ; Art. O. Fedotova]. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2008. – 39 p. 
• In the Apple : Satire, Humor / Anatoly Anastasiev ; [author, preface and editor M. I. Bratan]. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita : Yevshan-Zillya, 2008. – 59 p. : ill. 
• The Acts of the Wicked : journalism / Anatoly Anastasiev // Steppe : literary and artistic almanac / [Department of Culture of the KhODA; Kherson. regional org. of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine; editor-in-chief V. Piddubnyak]. – Kherson, 2017. – No. 24. – P. 87. 
• To Ingulets through Distances and Time... : [poem] / Anatoly Anastasiev // Voice of the Fatherland : thematic almanac / Department of Culture of the KhODA, Center of Folk Art, Regional Association of All-Ukrainian Society "Prosvita" named after T. G. Shevchenko. – Kyiv ; Kherson, 2014. – Issue 4 : Kobzar's Paths. – P. 14. 
• From My Family Tree ; Father ; He Was Coming Home from Work… ; Cruelty ; Inflammation of the Heart : Poems, Songs, Memories / Anatoliy Anastasiev. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2011. – 87 p. From My Family Tree : [Poems] / Anatoliy Anastasiev // Towers and Sails : Poetry of the Kherson Region at the End of the 20th - Beginning of the 21st Century / [ed. board: V. Zagorodnyuk [and others]]. – Kherson, 2007. – T. 1. – P. 24-32. – (Literary Treasures of the Kherson Region). – Also included: Brief biographical information.
• Your dreams will come true: poems for children in musical images Volodymyrand Lepeshka and illustrated by Oksana Vladimirova / Anatoly Anastasiev ; [ed. O. V. Oleksiuk]. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2009. – 39 p. From here begins the Fatherland : songs for and about children / Anatoly Anastasiev, Volodymyr Lepeshko. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2010. – 20 p. : ill. 
• And believe me [Sheet music] : [song] / words by Anatoly Anastasiev ; music by V. Plakseyev // Collection of works by Kherson composer Valentin Plakseyev [Sheet music] / Valentin Plakseyev. – Kherson : OCVNK, 1996. &ndash P. 14. 
• Kosovitsya : poems / Anatoly Anastasyev ; [ed. A. P. Shabalova ; artist. V. V. Puzyrenko]. – Simferopol : Tavriya, 1991. – 56 p. – Contents also: Brief biographical information. Uncooled memory ash : poems, short stories / Anatoly Anastasyev. – Mykolaiv : Ilion, 2017. – 124 p. 
• Autumn dissonance : a book of poems / Anatoly Anastasyev ; [ed. M. I. Bratan]. – Kherson : Prosvita, 2007. – 75 p. 
• Nightshade : poem / Anatoly Anastasiev // Steppe : literary and artistic almanac / Department of Culture and Tourism of the KhODA, Kherson. regional org. of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine ; [ed. chief. O. Butuzov]. – Kherson, 2007. – No. 15. – P. 139. 
• Plant : poems / Anatoly Anastasiev ; [ed. M. I. Bratan]. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2008. – 75 p. 
• Streams : poems / Anatoly Anastasiev. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2008. – 59 p. 
• Just Life: journalism, poetry, short story, play / Anatoliy Anastasiev. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2013. – 99 p. 
• Territory of Dignity: [poetry, essays, sketches, humor] / Anatoliy Anastasiev. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2014. – 83 p. 
• Am I to blame (a veteran's monologue); We are not children of war: [poems] / Anatoliy Anastasiev // Literary Kherson: literary and cultural almanac / Department for Family, Youth and Sports, etc. – Kherson; Kyiv, 2009. – Issue 1. – P. 18-19. 
• The Cup of Patience: Journalism / Anatoly Anastasiev. – Kyiv ; Kherson : Prosvita, 2011. – 79 p. 
• The geese have not yet flown into the thicket [Sheet music] : [song] / music by V. Plakseyev ; verses by A. Anastasiev // Songs of the Tavrian Steppes: on verses by poets of the Kherson region / Valentin Plakseyev. – Kherson, 2019. – P. 88. – (Song treasures of the Kherson region). 
• …As in a long field: story, short stories, verses / Anatoly Anastasiev. – Mykolaiv: Ilion, 2017. – 84 p. 

About him

• Anastasiev Anatoly: poet: [brief biographical information] // Literary Lotsia Khersonshchyna (XVII - early XXI century): modern literary and local history regional reference book: in 2 vols. / Mykola Kalyaka; general editor Vik-Koshovyi; rec. V. S. Zagorodnyuk. – Kyiv, 2009. – Vol. 1. – P. 10-11. 
• Without a Miss: [preface to the collection of satire and humor by A. Anastasiev «Into the Apple»] / Mykola Bratan // Into the Apple: satire, humor / Anatoliy Anastasiev ; [ed. M. I. Bratan]. – Kyiv ; Kherson, 2008. – P. 3. 
• The Source of National Energy: [preface to the book by A. Anastasiev «Territory of Dignity»] / Anna Stavytska // Territory of Dignity: [poetry, essays, sketches, humor] / Anatoliy Anastasiev. – Kyiv ; Kherson, 2014. – P. 3-6. 
• A gray-haired boy on the morning path: Poetic topography of Anatoly Anastasiev / Dmitry Kremin // Autumn dissonance / Anatoly Anastasiev. – Kherson, 2007. – P. 3-5. Stepovyk with faith in the ideals of national unity [Electronic resource]: [about A. Anastasiev] / Oleg Oleksiuk // Slovo Prosvity – Text. data. – Published. 11/17/2017 – Access mode: http://slovoprosvity.org/2017/11/17/stepovyk-z-viroyu-v-idealy-natsionalnoji-jednosti/ , free. – Screen title. - Access date: 05/06/2020. What is needed for happiness: [preface to A. Anastasiev's book "The ashes of a cold memory"] / Dmitry Kremin // The ashes of a cold memory: poems, short stories / Anatoly Anastasiev. – Mykolaiv: Ilion, 2017. – P. 6-7.

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