Sergey Trakhimenok

Sergey Aleksandrovich Trakhimenok
Born Сяргей Аляксандравіч Трахімёнак
(1950-02-07)February 7, 1950
Karasuk, Novosibirsk Region, Russia
Occupation writer, screenwriter

Sergey Aleksandrovich Trakhimenok, (Belarusian: Сяргей Аляксандравіч Трахімёнак, born February 7, 1950, in Karasuk Karasuk, Novosibirsk Region[1]) – a Belarusian writer, who creates his prose in Russian language, a screenwriter, Doctor of Law, Professor, the Secretary of the The Belarusian Writers' Union and the Member of the Union of Russian Writers.

Today, he is the author of thirty books of prose published in Minsk, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the laureate of the "Gold Cupid" National Award (Belarus) and the "Reward of the Ural Federal district", the active associate of Association of writers of Ural, Siberia and Povolzh'ya.

According to the philological scientific research of a Russian Professor Alla Bolshakova: Russian-Belarusian writer Sergei Trahimenok belongs to the cohort of those "marginal" writers who continue to create works in Russian, despite the difficult process of rebuilding national identity in the former Soviet republics.[2]

Trakhimenok is best known for his spy novel "Notes of a Black Colonel", psychological detective novel "Burnout Syndrome" (2008) and a dashingly twisted detective with mixture of different techniques of fantasy, conspiracy, detective fiction and dystopia "A Petri Bowl or Russian Civilization: the Genesis and Survival Problems" (2012). As a screenwriter he is the member of BELVIDEOCENTER. In 2014, he was rewarded with the Finalist Certificate at the New York Festivals of World Best TV & Films in competition Television – Documentary/Information Program in the category Docudrama for his screenplay for the film "Albert Veinik's Attraction".

Career

Served in the army, worked at a factory. In 1977 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Institute of Law, Faculty of Law. In 1981 he did the Higher Courses of the KGB. Since 1990 he has been living in Minsk and got scientific degrees of the Doctor of Law (1999), and of the Professor (2003). He became the Member of the Writers' Union of Russia in 1994 and the Union of Writers of Belarus in 1996. In 1996–1999 he was heading the department of legal disciplines of the National Security Institute of the Republic of Belarus. In 1999–2000 he was appointed as the Head of the Situation and Analytical Center of the State Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus. From 2005 to 2007, Trakhimenok was a Deputy Director of the Civil Service Institute, and since 2008 he’s been the Director of the Research Institute of Theory and Practice of the State Administration at The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus.

Literary career

Trakhimenok began his literary activity in the late 1980s mostly in the genre of adventure novel and detective. His stories were published in the weekly "Youth of Siberia", later in the magazines of "Siberian Lights", "Neman", "Spring", "Nemiga", "Adventurer", "Private Life", "Belarusian Thought" (Minsk), "Novel-Magazine of the XXIst Century", "Our Contemporary", "Don" (Rostov-on-Don), "Rising-up" (Voronezh), "Space" (Alma-Ata), "Ladoga" (St. Petersburg), "Lights of Kuzbass" (Kemerovo), "The Slav" (Kharkov), etc. In his first short novel "The Hostage" (1978) he described the first manifestations of terrorism in Russia. In the story the hostages were not the only ones who had been captured by criminals, but also those who had to release them because they were on duty, and in those days they were not ready for this. But this short novel was published only in 1988. A number of Trakhimenok's short stories and short novels are devoted to the events and people's fates during the Second World War. For example, his "military prose" ("Lieutenant Priblagin's Case”, "Crumbs", "Dearest kryvinka", "To the ceremonial march").Very impressive are his stories with the theme "Children and War" ("Crumbs", "Dearest kryvinka", "Belli puerri"). There’re author’s essays on this subject as well ("War in the lens watering", "A drop in the ocean of victory" and others. In his social psychological realistic stories "Vanity of vanities", "Bird Cherry Bloomed", "The Prosecutor's Blood", "The Driver", "A Terrible Word "Cinema", " A Needle in the Square", "Loop of Morbut" the author implies the knowledge of psychology of characters with clearly spelled out motivation for their actions. The writer is called Master of Acute plot because most of his fiction is сreated in the detective genre[3]or detective fiction.

Works

Scenarios

Some newsreels and documentaries were filmed on scenarios of Sergey Alexandrovich filmed:[4]

Novels and Novellas (Russian/English titles)

Short Stories and Novellas Published in Periodicals

pp. 8–9.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.books.ru/books/trakhimenok-sergei-aleksandrovich-3518965/
  2. ↑ Большакова Алла. Правда факта и поиск героя: о прозе Сергея Трахимёнка
  3. ↑ detective genre
  4. ↑ TRUTH of Security Service – about it: Sergey Trakhimenok
  5. ↑ http://detectivebooks.ru/author/67376284/

[1]TRUTH of Security Service – about it: Sergey Trakhimenok

Notes

[2] Alla Bolshakova. Truth of Fact and Searching for a Hero: about Sergey Trakhimenok's fiction Большакова Алла. Правда факта и поиск героя: о прозе Сергея Трахимёнка // Сибирские огни. № 2. — 2010


  1. ↑ TRUTH of Security Service – about it: Sergey Trakhimenok
  2. ↑ Большакова Алла. Правда факта и поиск героя: о прозе Сергея Трахимёнка // Сибирские огни. № 2. — 2010
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