If you put the poems of Yuri Voronov in the sequence in which they were created, then from these lines you can learn about the biography of this unique blockade.
Biography
Yuri Petrovich Voronov was born in Leningrad in January 1929. He had a strong family. Father worked in a trade union, mother worked as an accountant.
When the Great Patriotic War began, the husband was forced to part with his beloved wife, two sons, as the head of the family was called to the front. Yuri was 12 years old at that time. In October 1941, he wrote to his father that for a month already "brown bastards" had been flying into the city, their house had been destroyed. In his lines, the boy pointed out that now he eats well, his grandmother and his mother even call him a glutton. At this time, they lived with "Sasha's babinka", as the boy called her.
It was evident that these lines were written by the hand of a child. But just a few months later, he matured in the harsh years of the war. Then the boy wrote a poem that unfinished tea quickly becomes covered with a film of ice, in the tent it is gloomy and the floor is shaking from the roar of the shell.
Young fighter
Soon, Yuri Voronov enters the emergency rescue service, then he was only 13 years old. Here, together with other guys, he extinguishes incendiary bombs that hit the roofs, dismantles debris from which he rescues people.
Later, they wrote about the boy in the Leninskaya Smena newspaper. This note indicated how, at the first sounds of the alarm siren, Yura did not run to the bomb shelter, but hurried to the headquarters. He knew that here he would be given an assignment, because someone would certainly need to be freed from the rubble. But suddenly a shell exploded nearby, Yura fell. When he woke up, he tried to run to save people even in this state.
The death of relatives
The future famous poet wrote to his father about how their house was bombed. At that time in the apartment were: grandmother, mother, brother and sister, born in October 1941.
The boy said that his grandmother and mother were saved. And the sister and brother were found only on the fifth day already dead. Rescuers stopped searching after 3 days, then the father came to the rescue, who was then in Kronstadt. Together with Yura, he dug up the rubble with his hands. So the boy found his one and a half-month-old sister and three-year-old brother, who could not be saved.
Post-war time
When the war ended, Yuri finished his studies, then entered the university. Here he graduated and became a certified journalist.
Yuri worked as a head of the department in the newspaper "Smena", then in the same publication - as an editor. In 1959, he began working at Komsomolskaya Pravda as editor-in-chief, and 6 years later he was appointed executive secretary of the Pravda newspaper.
Yuri Voronov has many poems about the war, about the blockade that he managed to survive.
Reading these lines, you can mentally recreate the picture of those difficult times when boys and girls of his age were forced to grow up quickly in order to help adults bring closer the bright Victory Day.
Yuri Voronov was awarded orders, a medal "For the Defense of Leningrad". For the collection of poems "Blockade" he was awarded the State Prize.
