Folk ensemble of violinists of the Birobidzhan City Palace of Culture. 1984
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
February 23, 1924
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
On this day, Vasily Nikitovich Morozov, a children's poet, was born; he lived for many years in the village of Khingansk, Jewish Autonomous Region.
Vasily was born in the village. Papstsevka, Pochepsky district, Bryansk region, in a peasant family. Graduated from junior high school.
In 1940, he moved with his parents to the Amur region. He worked on a collective farm as a trailer operator, a shepherd, and as a tractor driver after completing a tractor driver course.
In 1942 he was drafted into the army and served in the Pacific Fleet. He was demobilized in 1947 with the rank of senior sailor. Arrived in the village. Khingansk, where he spent most of his life, where his work biography took place.
Since 1999 he lived in the village. Sunny Khabarovsk Territory. He wrote poetry from his youth, but after the army, Vasily Nikitovich did not write poetry for a long time; he began writing again in 1965. In the same year, he published the children's book “Aleshina the Pea” (0+) with a circulation of 150 thousand copies in the Khabarovsk book publishing house. The next book for children was published in 1989 under the title “Bird Troubles” (0+), which included 43 poems.
In 2001, his book “The Sun in a Barrel” (0+) was published in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, which included poems from different years, and their author was accepted into the Union of Russian Writers.
In subsequent years, three more poetry collections were published. Vasily Nikitovich’s poems were published in magazines, in regional and regional periodicals, the almanac “On the Banks of Bira and Bidzhan” (0+), and in various collections.
Recently, war veteran V.N. Morozov wrote a lot about the war years.
On October 21, 2012, at the age of 88, Vasily Nikitovich Morozov passed away.
February 23, 1964
Violin ensemble. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The first concert of the Birobidzhan violin ensemble took place.
The founder of the violin ensemble, former director of the music school, Abram Anisimovich Gershkov, assembled a group of six violinists.
The team was led by Semyon Naumovich Groysman from the first days of its creation for 30 years.
In 1967, for successful performance at city, regional, regional and zonal amateur art shows, the ensemble was awarded the title of Laureate of the All-Union Show and was awarded a medal for the performance of works: “Poem” by Fiebig (0+), “Dance” by Jenkinson (0+).
For a number of years, the ensemble took an active part in the work on the musical design of new theatrical productions, and worked closely with the folk choir team.
In 1976, for its creative achievements, the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR awarded the ensemble the title “People's Amateur Group”.
In the summer of 1977, the ensemble was invited to Moscow to participate in demonstration performances of the Laureates of the All-Union Festival.
In 2015, the ensemble was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artistic Creativity Group of the Jewish Autonomous Region.
Over the years, the composition of the ensemble has changed.
February 23, 1979
A regional seminar for leaders of propaganda teams and groups of political informants was held.
Secretary of the CPSU regional committee V. T. Martynov made a report “On the progress of fulfilling the requirements for increasing the role of oral political agitation and implementing the decisions of the 25th Congress of the CPSU, measures to further improve the ideological and theoretical level and increase the effectiveness of political information and agitation.”
The seminar participants also listened to a report by the second secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU N.N. Krapivny “On the results of the implementation of plans and socialist obligations of the third year of the Tenth Five-Year Plan and the tasks of party organizations to mobilize workers to implement the decisions of the November (1978) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee.”
Leaders of groups of political informants and leaders of propaganda collectives exchanged work experience, listened to methodological lectures by the consultant of the House of Political Education of the regional committee of the CPSU L.A. Lopatnikova and the head of the House of Political Education of the regional committee of the CPSU L.I. Kastrykina.
In conclusion, lecturer of the regional committee of the CPSU N.S. gave a lecture on the international situation of the USSR. Cheremisin.
