Vladimir Konstantinovich Arro

Background

Vladimir Arro was born in 1932.

Education

He graduated from the Philology Department of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (1955).

Career

He worked as a teacher in a village school, was called up for military service. On his return he worked in municipal educational institutions. In 1962 he became the youngest director of the school for working youth in Leningrad. He was an employee of scientific institute of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, he wrote a thesis on alternative provision of adults (1964-1966).

Since 1966 he professionally studied literature, cooperated with the magazine «Koster» and other publications. He participated in the creation of the youth magazine "Aurora", where he was the head of the journalistic department. Since 1969 he is a member of the Union of Soviet writers. He studied at the Higher Literary Courses in the seminar of V. Rozov (1979-1981). In 1989, following the results of the first alternative elections, he headed the Leningrad writers' organization. He stood for election to deputy of the Leningrad City Council (1990-1993), was chairman of the Commission on Glasnost. He participated in the creation of independent mass media: newspapers "Neva time" and "Leningrad literary man", magazines "Leningrad" and "Art of Leningrad", contributed to the birth of some new publishers.

Worked as editor-in-charge of the literary-dramatic and children's broadcasting of Petersburg Radio (1993-1995).

Recently, Arro is fascinated by a new genre - essays, documentary and biographical prose.

Achievements

• In 1991, together with the chairman of the Union of Writers of Sweden, Peter Kurman, addressed to writers living on the shores of the Baltic Sea with the proposal to recover together on a journey by ship. Next year the project was done: more than 300 writers from ten countries first met together. The result of the meeting was the International Writers' House, which was soon opened on the island of Gotland, an anthology released in Stockholm, and the establishment of a permanent Congress.

Works

• book

  • Sunny Side of the Street

    (This book is the book "When the salvos rattled" enriched ...)

    1969

  • When the salvos rattled

    (The first book - stories about life in the evacuation - w...)

    1964

  • Outbreak of Liberation

    (A hectic story about the life of the writer community in ...)

    2006

  • The Refuge House

    (This are memories of the most important addresses in the ...)

    2002

  • The Curtain Opens

    (Reflections on the theater and drama based on their own e...)

    2012

  • The Desire to Live

    (An attempt to stop the landmark moments of the past.)

    2014

  • Tere, Estonia!

    (A tribute to the homeland of the ancestry.)

    2004

  • Storks in the City

    1968

  • Treasures of My City

    1974

  • Merry Road

    1975

  • Old Drummer

    1980

  • Three Kopeikins and the Star

    1967

  • White Terema

    1968

  • Chizh-Korolevich

    1968

  • Bananas and lemons

    1972

  • Here is my village

    1973

  • My old house

    1976

• play

  • Higher measure

    1976

  • Garden

    1979

  • 5 romances in the old house

    1981

  • Look who's here!

    1981

  • The wine of the 1930's harvest

    1981

  • The blue sky and clouds in it

    1983

  • Track

    1985

  • Tragedians and Comedians

    1989

  • Rejoice

    2001

  • Three stories from the gateway

    2016

  • On the way to Singapore

    2016

  • Weekdays of Ophelia

    2016

Membership

• Union of Soviet Writers , USSR

  1969

Connections

Father:

Arro Konstantin Kuzmich

Arro Konstantin Kuzmich was born into Estonian family of peasant farmers, who lived near Narva - worked in multi-copy newspapers, in the «Leningradskaya Pravda». Father was called up for military service from besieged Leningrad in February 1942, and died in March during the formation of the Estonian part in the town of Kamyshlov.

Mother:

Nabatova Frida Mihailovna

She was a native from Gomel, graduated from Leningrad Library College of N. Krupskaya, was the head of the factory library.

Spouse:

Marina Efimova

Marina Efimova is a poet, writer, book critic and journalist of Radio «Liberty».

Spouse:

Galina Vasilievna Bukalova

Brother:

Ernst

Younger brother of the writer Ernst died during stronghold in 1942.

Daughter:

Ksenia Vladimirovna

Son:

Alexey Vladimirovich

Son:

Konstantin Vladimirovich