Background
Valery Matveev was born November 7, 1943 in the village of Tashly-Tala, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russian Federation.
journalist lecturer prose writer
Valery Matveev was born November 7, 1943 in the village of Tashly-Tala, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russian Federation.
In 1965 Valery Matveev graduated from the Faculty of Agronomy of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute, then in 1976 from the Higher Party School (under the Central Committee of the CPSU) in Moscow.
From 1949 Matveev lived in the Bobrovsky District of the Voronezh Region (the village of Annovka and Khrenovoe). In 1967, Valery Matveev began his career in journalism. He was working in the city of Valuyki (Belgorod Region), Belgorod, Khanty-Mansiysk (Tyumen Region), Tyumen, Surgut (Tyumen Region). In Surgut, he was in the office of the Chief editor on the local radio.
As a prose writer, he was published in the magazine "Pod’em", "Literaturnaya ucheba", "Vrata Sibiri", "Yugra". He is also known as the author of collections of stories: "Prostite blazhennyih!" (Yekaterinburg, 2001), "Altay" (Barnaul, 2003), as well as the documentary book "Surgut na rubezhe vekov" (Sverdlovsk, 2000).