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The well-known Russian writer, long-time guest of the Russian Radio Liberty Service's Vladimir Voinovich, died suddenly in Moscow on July 27. Vladimir Voinovich was born on September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad (today Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan). In 1956, arrived in Moscow in 1961 a novel "We live here" was published, and the song "Fourteen minutes before the beginning" in his poems was in fact the anthem of Soviet astronauts. In 1962, Voinovich was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR
The novel "The Life and Unusual Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin", was written since 1963 and was in samizdat. The first part was published in 1969 in Frankfurt on the Main and the entire book was in Paris in 1975. Voinovich was actively involved in the human rights movement, which provoked a conflict with the authorities. In 1974, he was expelled from the Union of Writers, in 1980 he was expelled from the USSR, and in 1981 he was deprived of Soviet citizenship. In 1980-1992, he lived in Germany and the United States, collaborating with Radio Liberty. In 1990, Voinovich was returned to Soviet citizenship, and he returned to the USSR.
In 1986 he wrote a satirical novel, a dystopia "Moscow 2042". This coincides so much with the current Russian realities that the writer was interested in knowing if he had a time machine. According to Voinovich, he saw the growing influence of the KGB. Therefore, in the novel of Russia, the future is managed by the Communist Party of State Security.
The funeral of the writer will take place on Monday, July 30.
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