Museums of Russia: The Museum-apartment of the writer Vasily Belov to be open in October in Vologda

The Cyril-Belozersky Museum-Reserve (the Vologda region) has obtained another branch – Museum-Apartment of the writer Vasily Belov, located in Vologda. Museum exhibits will be writer's personal belongings. Currently it is conducted preparations for the opening ceremony, which is scheduled for October 21. It will be dedicated to the birthday of Vasily Belov and become one of the most significant events of 2015, declared the Year of Literature.   

At the end of last year, President of Russia Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Culture of Russia to create a museum-apartment of Vasily Belov. At the same time it is considered the possibility of the inclusion of the memorial museum of the St. Cyril-Belozersky museum-reserve as a branch. The apartment in which he lived the famous writer, was bought from his widow Olga Belova funded from the federal budget. 

Vasily Ivanovich Belov - Russian writer and publicist. He was born in 1932 in the village of Timonikha of the Vologda region in a peasant family. For the first time it began to be published during the military service in Leningrad - his poems were published in the Leningrad Military District. Upon returning to the small home Vasily Belov worked in the local newspaper "Kommunar". In 1959 he enrolled at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and after graduation he moved to Vologda. In 1963 he was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.

Popularity Vasily Belov was brought by the story "Usual thing", published in 1966, then came "Carpentry stories", story "Bukhtin Vologda". In his works, Vasily Belov said about the village. Later, along with Fyodor Abramov and writer Valentin Rasputin was recognized as the brightest representative of "village prose" - the direction in Russian literature, was born in the middle of the XX century. In 1981 he was awarded the USSR State Prize, and in 2003 he was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art. Vasily Belov died on December 4, 2012.