“We cannot allow people to direct towards their own destruction those forces of nature that they were able to open and conquer.”

The modern writer V. Rasputin argued: “To talk about ecology today means to talk not about changing life, but about saving it.” Unfortunately, the state of our ecology is very catastrophic. This is manifested in the impoverishment of flora and fauna. Further, the author says that “a gradual adaptation to danger occurs,” that is, the person does not notice how serious the current situation is. Let us remember the problem associated with the Aral Sea. The bottom of the Aral Sea has become so exposed that the shores from the sea ports are tens of kilometers away. The climate changed very sharply, and animals became extinct. All these troubles greatly affected the lives of people living in the Aral Sea. Over the past two decades, the Aral Sea has lost half of its volume and more than a third of its area. The exposed bottom of a huge area turned into a desert, which became known as Aralkum. In addition, the Aral Sea contains millions of tons of toxic salts. This problem cannot but worry people. In the eighties, expeditions were organized to solve the problems and causes of the death of the Aral Sea. Doctors, scientists, writers reflected and studied the materials of these expeditions.

V. Rasputin in the article “In the fate of nature is our fate” reflects on the relationship between man and the environment. “Today there is no need to guess “whose groan is heard over the great Russian river.” Then the Volga itself groans, dug up length and breadth, spanned by hydroelectric dams,” writes the author. Looking at the Volga, you especially understand the price of our civilization, that is, the benefits that man has created for himself. It seems that everything that was possible has been defeated, even the future of humanity.

The problem of the relationship between man and the environment is also raised by the modern writer Ch. Aitmatov in his work “The Scaffold”. He showed how man destroys the colorful world of nature with his own hands.

The novel begins with a description of the life of a wolf pack that lives quietly before the appearance of man. He literally demolishes and destroys everything in his path, without thinking about the surrounding nature. The reason for such cruelty was simply difficulties with the meat delivery plan. People mocked the saigas: “The fear reached such proportions that the she-wolf Akbara, deaf from the gunshots, thought that the whole world had gone deaf, and the sun itself was also rushing about and looking for salvation...” In this tragedy, Akbara’s children die, but this is her grief doesn't end. Further, the author writes that people started a fire in which five more Akbara wolf cubs died. For the sake of their own goals, people could “gut the globe like a pumpkin,” not suspecting that nature would also take revenge on them sooner or later. A lone wolf is drawn to people, wants to transfer her maternal love to a human child. It turned into a tragedy, but this time for the people. A man, in a fit of fear and hatred for the incomprehensible behavior of the she-wolf, shoots at her, but ends up hitting his own son.

This example speaks of the barbaric attitude of people towards nature, towards everything that surrounds us. I wish there were more caring and kind people in our lives.

Academician D. Likhachev wrote: “Humanity spends billions not only to avoid suffocation and death, but also to preserve the nature around us.” Of course, everyone is well aware of the healing power of nature. I think that a person should become its master, its protector, and its intelligent transformer. A favorite leisurely river, a birch grove, a restless bird world... We will not harm them, but will try to protect them.

In this century, man is actively interfering with the natural processes of the Earth’s shells: extracting millions of tons of minerals, destroying thousands of hectares of forest, polluting the waters of seas and rivers, and releasing toxic substances into the atmosphere. One of the most important environmental problems of the century has been water pollution. A sharp deterioration in the quality of water in rivers and lakes cannot and will not affect human health, especially in areas with dense populations. The environmental consequences of accidents at nuclear power plants are sad. The echo of Chernobyl swept across the entire European part of Russia, and will affect people’s health for a long time.

Thus, as a result of economic activities, people cause great damage to nature, and at the same time to their health. How then can a person build his relationship with nature? Each person in his activities must treat every living thing on Earth with care, not alienate himself from nature, not strive to rise above it, but remember that he is part of it.

The exhibition was prepared in connection with the Year of Literature in Russia and is dedicated to writers and poets of the Kemerovo region.

Being unique each in their own way, at the same time, all writers together form the basis of a common flow that unites individual streams into one powerful river called “literature.” The totality of names, the totality of works presented at the exhibition gives a fairly complete picture of the modern unique literary life of Kuzbass. The sections “Prose” and “Poetry” reflect the current state of Kuzbass literature.

PROSE

The clearer the air, the brighter the sunlight.
The more transparent the prose, the more perfect its beauty
and the more strongly it resonates in the human heart.
Paustovsky K. G.

Soviet and Russian writer, prose writer, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1966, author of over twenty books. Born on May 12, 1933 in Altai in the village of Vasilchuki. After graduating from the Novokuznetsk Pedagogical Institute, he worked in regional newspapers of Kuzbass, in the geological party. From 1963 to 1968 he was editor-in-chief of the Kemerovo book publishing house. From 1971 to 1983 he headed the Kemerovo Writers' Organization. Edited the almanac “Lights of Kuzbass” (1966 1986). The first story was published in the newspaper Komsomolets Kuzbassa in 1953.

Mazaev, Vladimir Mikhailovich. Xin-taiga [Text]: stories, stories, pictures from taiga trails / Vladimir Mikhailovich Mazaev. Kemerovo: Offset, 2012. 267, p. The collection of prose “Xin-Taiga” includes the stories: Alarm of the Heart; Cave; My beautiful Tunguska; stories: I'll stay alive see you; Ledum drunken grass; Bird cherry cold; Xin-Taiga; Nyurka from Tarlashka; By the dying fire; Trajectory of Love; Fever; Pictures from taiga trails: Under the shadow of the northern night; The situation over the Sarginsky ridge; Night of Long Knives; We are flying to bomb!; Autumn light music; December melodies.

Totysh, Yuri Sofronovich. Bocharov [Text]: documentary novel / Yuri Sofronovich Totysh. Kemerovo: News, 2013. 225, p.: photo. This is a documentary novel about the life and work of Viktor Ivanovich Bocharov, a well-known mine builder in the country, Hero of Socialist Labor, holder of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, Honorary Miner, Honorary Citizen of the city of Neryungri. The teams he led created hundreds of coal and other industrial enterprises, built the cities of Berezovsky in the Kemerovo region and Neryungri in Yakutia. The book is filled with little-known historical facts about the largest construction projects in Yakutia and the Kemerovo region.

POETRY

Poetry is not “the best words in the best order”; it is the highest form of existence of language.
Joseph Brodsky

Burmistrov Boris Vasilievich (08/08/1946, Kemerovo) poet, publicist. Graduated from the Siberian Polytechnic College. He worked as a mechanic in the cities of Kuzbass. Chairman of the board of the Kuzbass joint venture, secretary of the board of the Russian joint venture. Academician of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts. Lives in Kemerovo. Published in the magazines “Siberian Lights”, “Day and Night”, “Our Contemporary”. First book “Don't Fall Out of Love” (Kemerovo, 1989). Author of the books “Soul”, “Bow to the Russian Land” (both 1992), “Hourglass”, “Lyrics” (both 1995), “I live and rejoice and cry...” (1999), “Winter Solstice Day” "(2001), published in Kemerovo and Moscow. Prize winner named after. V. D. Fedorov, named after. N. Klyueva.

Burmistrov, Boris Vasilievich. Russian destiny is sung [Text]: new poems / Boris Vasilievich Burmistrov. Kemerovo: House of Writers of Kuzbass, 2012. 68 p. He dedicated his creativity to the people living nearby, his father’s house, his native land and the city, which became a source of inspiration for him. The collection includes such poems as “Questioning”, “In this short and eternal life”, “Time will never return back”, “Now sowing, now again harvesting”, “Failures and successes”, “Time for May, the snow is melting again ", "So simple, with a stirrup", "My angel", "Sacrifice", "Code of the Universe", etc.

Goryanets Eduard Maksimovich was born in 1939 in Leningrad. In 1942 he was taken out of besieged Leningrad, worked almost his entire working life at the Progress Production Association, and is currently retired. Member of the Kuzbass Writers Union, member of the Kuzbass Writers Union. Author of poetry collections: “What does the soul lack?”, “Your image”, Lady Love”, “The bud of a stunned willow”, In defiance of fate”, “Vulnerable soul”, “Through the abyss of separation”, Crystal spring”, “In captivity of love” ", "Cossack saber", etc. Over the past four years, more than 18 collections of poetry have been published. He has been repeatedly published in Russian literary magazines “Southern Star”, “Far East”, “Beginning of the Century”, “Lights of Kuzbass”, etc.

Goryanets, Eduard Maksimovich. The story of my Kuzbass [Text]: in verse / Eduard Maksimovich Goryanets. Kemerovo: Printing house, 2014. 182, p. A book by the famous Kuzbass poet Eduard Maksimovich Goryants, “The History of My Kuzbass,” was published in Kuzbass. This is a poem in verse about the history of the Kuznetsk land from ancient times to modern times. She gained great attention from readers and other writers, who highly appreciated the poetry and beauty of the word. Historians note the clarity of the events and actions described in the poem. This book is so far the only historical work in Kuzbass written in poetic artistic language.

Murzin Dmitry Vladimirovich was born in the city of Kemerovo in 1971. Graduated from the Kemerovo State University, Faculty of Mathematics and the M. Gorky Literary Institute. Published in the magazines “Moscow”, “Lights of Kuzbass”, “Our Contemporary”, “New Coast”, “Day and Night”, “Islands”, “Network Poetry”, “End of an Epoch”, “Mailbox”, “Alkonost” , in collections of poems “Pushkin Square”, “Poets of Kemerovo University”, “More expensive than silver and gold”. Author of the books: “The White Body of Verse” (1997), “Angelfall” (1998), “Full Jack” (together with Alexey Gamzov) (2001) and “Native Speaker” (2006). Member of the Russian Writers' Union.

Fedorov Vasily Dmitrievich (1918 1984) Soviet poet, prose writer, essayist. Born on February 23, 1918 in Kemerovo, in a large family of a mason worker. He was the ninth child in the family. The poet spent his childhood and youth in the village of Maryevka, Yaisky district, Kemerovo region. His career began on a collective farm. In 1947, V. D. Fedorov’s first book, “The Lyrical Trilogy,” was published. In 1950, Fedorov graduated from the Literary Institute. M. Gorky. In 1955, his second book “Forest Springs” was published, in the same year “Marevsky Stars”, in 1958 “Wild Honey” and “White Grove”. Two books by Vasily Fedorov “The Third Roosters” (1966) and “Seventh Heaven” were awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR. M. Gorky 1968. The poet died on April 19, 1984.

Fedorov, Vasily Dmitrievich. Book of Faith [Text]: [verses and poems] / Vasily Dmitrievich Fedorov; [comp. A. Severny]. Kemerovo: Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts, 2012. 363 pp.: in the cover. Vasily Fedorov was and remains the greatest poet of our time, an outstanding master of Russian verse, who with his creativity generously enriched the great heritage of Russian classical poetry. Poems and poems by Vasily Fedorov as a memory of the century! The theme of the homeland occupies a significant place in the work of Vasily Fedorov. Fedorov's image of the homeland is drawn through space and movement, felt like the wind, like a raging free wild element, which combines delight and despair.

Yurov Gennady Evlampievich, was born in Kemerovo in 1937 on Krasnaya Gorka. He worked as a journalist in newspapers in Tomsk, Kemerovo and Magadan. He was the editor of the Kemerovo book publishing house, headed the Pritomye literary studio, then the Kemerovo writers' organization. He worked as a correspondent for the magazine “Russian Federation” in Western Siberia. He worked as the editor-in-chief of the local history almanac “Krasnaya Gorka”. Poet and publicist, author of eleven books of poetry and four books of prose. Published in magazines: “Our Contemporary”, “Moscow”, “Roman Gazeta”, “Smena”, “Rabotnitsa”, “Lights of Kuzbass”, etc.

On a note

You can get acquainted with the work of contemporary writers on the following sites:

"Lights of Kuzbass"

Official website of the Union of Kuzbass Writers

Official website of the Union of Writers of Russia

Ecology in the works of modern writers

"We cannot allow people to direct their own destruction of those forces of nature that they were able to open and conquer."

The modern writer V. Rasputin argued: “To talk about ecology today means to talk not about changing life, but about saving it.” Unfortunately, the state of our ecology is very catastrophic. This is manifested in the impoverishment of flora and fauna. Further, the author says that “a gradual adaptation to danger occurs,” that is, the person does not notice how serious the current situation is. Let us remember the problem associated with the Aral Sea. The bottom of the Aral Sea has become so exposed that the shores from the sea ports are tens of kilometers away. The climate changed very sharply, and animals became extinct. All these troubles greatly affected the lives of people living in the Aral Sea. Over the past two decades, the Aral Sea has lost half of its volume and more than a third of its area. The exposed bottom of a huge area turned into a desert, which became known as Aralkum. In addition, the Aral Sea contains millions of tons of toxic salts. This problem cannot but worry people. In the eighties, expeditions were organized to solve the problems and causes of the death of the Aral Sea. Doctors, scientists, writers reflected and studied the materials of these expeditions.

V. Rasputin in the article “In the fate of nature is our fate” reflects on the relationship between man and the environment. “Today there is no need to guess “whose groan is heard over the great Russian river.” It is the Volga itself that is groaning, dug up length and breadth, spanned by hydroelectric dams,” the author writes. Looking at the Volga, you especially understand the price of our civilization, that is, the benefits that man has created for himself. It seems that everything that was possible has been defeated, even the future of humanity.

The problem of the relationship between man and the environment is also raised by the modern writer Ch. Aitmatov in his work “The Scaffold”. He showed how man destroys the colorful world of nature with his own hands.

The novel begins with a description of the life of a wolf pack that lives quietly before the appearance of man. He literally demolishes and destroys everything in his path, without thinking about the surrounding nature. The reason for such cruelty was simply difficulties with the meat delivery plan. People mocked the saigas: “The fear reached such proportions that the she-wolf Akbara, deaf from the gunshots, thought that the whole world had gone deaf, and the sun itself was also rushing about and looking for salvation...” In this tragedy, Akbara’s children die, but this is her grief doesn't end. Further, the author writes that people started a fire in which five more Akbara wolf cubs died. People, for the sake of their own goals, could “gut the globe like a pumpkin,” not suspecting that nature would also take revenge on them sooner or later. A lone wolf is drawn to people, wants to transfer her maternal love to a human child. It turned into a tragedy, but this time for the people. A man, in a fit of fear and hatred for the incomprehensible behavior of the she-wolf, shoots at her, but ends up hitting his own son.

This example speaks of the barbaric attitude of people towards nature, towards everything that surrounds us. I wish there were more caring and kind people in our lives.

Academician D. Likhachev wrote: “Humanity spends billions not only to avoid suffocation and death, but also to preserve the nature around us.” Of course, everyone is well aware of the healing power of nature. I think that a person should become its master, its protector, and its intelligent transformer. A favorite leisurely river, a birch grove, a restless bird world... We will not harm them, but will try to protect them.

In this century, man is actively interfering with the natural processes of the Earth’s shells: extracting millions of tons of minerals, destroying thousands of hectares of forest, polluting the waters of seas and rivers, and releasing toxic substances into the atmosphere. One of the most important environmental problems of the century has been water pollution. A sharp deterioration in the quality of water in rivers and lakes cannot and will not affect human health, especially in areas with dense populations. The environmental consequences of accidents at nuclear power plants are sad. The echo of Chernobyl swept across the entire European part of Russia, and will affect people’s health for a long time.

Thus, as a result of economic activities, people cause great damage to nature, and at the same time to their health. How then can a person build his relationship with nature? Each person in his activities must treat every living thing on Earth with care, not alienate himself from nature, not strive to rise above it, but remember that he is part of it.

Unknown ocean depths, mysterious expanses of space, amazing tropical forests, amazing mountain ranges - an amazing, mysterious and mysterious world has surrounded us since time immemorial. Man's constant desire for progress has certainly yielded results - water flows for us straight from the tap, and electricity and the Internet have become so familiar that now it is difficult for us to imagine our existence without these benefits of civilization.

Huge factories, the number of which is growing every year, provide modern humanity with almost all the necessary resources. We have mastered metal and learned to use oil, invented paper and gunpowder, and huge information resources are now stored on tiny plastic media.

You have to pay for everything

It would seem that the life of modern humanity is almost ideal - everything is at hand, everything can be bought or produced, but not everything is so smooth. In the pursuit of progress, we lose sight of one extremely important detail - the limited nature of natural resources. Every year, human activity causes the extinction of a huge number of species of living beings, not to mention the destruction of forests and significant changes in climate, leading to cataclysms on a global scale.

One of the most serious and demanding issues is environmental problems. There are a variety of arguments in favor of preserving the environment, ranging from calls for mercy to scientific evidence of the existence of a threat on a planetary scale.

What are they making movies about?

If you think about it, at the moment there is a truly staggering number of films in which the problem of necessity is revealed. As an example, we can cite the famous disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow”, which reveals the topic of global warming, or the sensational film at one time with John Cusack in the lead role with the minimalistic title “2012”.

By and large, one of the most popular topics in modern (and not only) cinema are environmental problems. Arguments in favor of limiting the use of natural resources are literally raining down on the viewer directly from the screen, but so far this has not brought significant results.

Book pages

This kind of topic is no less common in literature. Not only fiction, but also scientific books cover all sorts of arguments on environmental issues from a variety of angles. The book “Silent Spring,” for example, reveals the dangers of using pesticides, and Robin Murray in his work “The Goal - Zero Waste” draws the reader’s attention to the need for high-quality waste disposal for the sake of preserving the environment.

Any classical or modern dystopia in one way or another covers the topic of irrational use of natural resources and the harmful influence of humans on the flora and fauna of the planet.

In the footsteps of Ray Bradbury

A classic example of fiction on the topic of irrational use of resources and opportunities by man is the novel “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. Environmental issues also occupy a significant place in the work. The author presents very impressive arguments - the disappearance of a tiny butterfly can lead to truly irreversible consequences that change the entire course of evolution.

A Friend of the Earth

This novel is set in the not-so-distant year 2026, when there are practically no trees or wild animals left. It would seem, what other arguments are required? Many writers address the issue of ecology in literature, and the author of the work we are considering does not skimp on large-scale comparisons of the past and the future and a description of what the Earth may lose if the planet’s population does not reconsider its views on the use of natural resources.

Orwell talked about this

The endless buildings of all kinds of ministries, the dirt, the devastation in which the modern world is immersed - this is the classic landscape from the novel “1984”, in which the arguments to the problem of ecology consist for the most part in comparisons between the naturalness of nature and the coldness of stone erected by man.

"Cloud Atlas"

Both the film, directed jointly by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski tandem, and the book try to draw the attention of the masses to unreasonable human behavior. Although indirectly, this work also highlights certain environmental issues. The author presents his arguments in such a way that the reader (and then the viewer) sometimes simply cannot understand whether it is the past or the future.

Noisy megacities without a single trace of vegetation echo in this masterpiece with endless green forests and blue oceans, among which there is no longer a place for man. Here food is replaced with special soap, and society is served by specially created “products”, which are disposed of and converted into a source of energy after their expiration date.

Description of beauty

Today, one of the most pressing problems is the environmental problem. Arguments from the literature on this topic may be absolutely scientific and proven facts, but they cannot be compared with the descriptions of the purity and beauty of flora and fauna, which abound in world classics. How can you not think about preserving the environment when reading about virgin jungles and ocean depths in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe? How can you remain indifferent to saving rare species while holding Joy Adamson's autobiographical book "Born Free" in your hands?

What is an environmental problem for modern humanity? Arguments from literature, cinema and even computer games like the Last of us are no longer able to impress him. Sometimes it seems that the imaginary “stop” button, responsible for stopping the destruction of the environment, can only be pressed in the most extreme, extreme situation, when there may be no turning back.

A huge number of leading scientists around the world are continuously trumpeting the threat looming over humanity, bringing more and more weighty arguments. It is impossible to turn a blind eye to the environmental problem. Campaigns in favor of environmental conservation are becoming increasingly widespread. The corresponding petitions collect millions and even billions of signatures around the world, but this does not stop modern man. And who knows what this will lead to later...

Today, environmental problems are talked about everywhere: in the press, on television, on the Internet, at the bus stop, in the subway. But who was the first to say, who addressed this topic back in the 19th century, who noticed the beginning of this destructive trend even then, when the range of environmental problems was limited to the unjustified cutting down of the landowner's grove? As often happens, the first here were the “voices of the people” - writers.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov "Uncle Vanya"

One of the main defenders of nature among writers of the 19th century was Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. In the play "Uncle Vanya", written in 1896, the theme of ecology sounds quite clearly. Everyone, of course, remembers the charming Doctor Astrov. Chekhov put his attitude towards nature into the mouth of this character:

“You can heat stoves with peat and build sheds with stone. Well, I admit, cut down forests out of necessity, but why destroy them? Russian forests are cracking under the ax, billions of trees are dying, the homes of animals and birds are being devastated, rivers are shallowing and drying up, wonderful landscapes are disappearing irrevocably, and all because a lazy person does not have enough sense to bend down and pick up fuel from the ground.”

It’s amazing how Astrov, and in his person a progressive person of the 19th century, assesses the state of nature: “Here we are dealing with degeneration as a result of an unbearable struggle for existence, this degeneration from inertia, from ignorance, from a complete lack of self-awareness, when a cold, hungry, sick person “In order to save the remains of his life, in order to save his children, he instinctively, unconsciously grabs onto everything that can satisfy his hunger, keep warm, destroys everything, without thinking about tomorrow... Almost everything has already been destroyed, but nothing has yet been created in its place.”

To Astrov, this state seems extreme, and he in no way imagines that fifty or a hundred years will pass and the Chernobyl disaster will break out, and the rivers will be polluted with industrial waste, and there will be almost no green “islands” left in the cities!

Leonid Leonov "Russian Forest"

In 1957, the first laureate of the revived Lenin Prize was the writer Leonid Leonov, nominated for his novel “Russian Forest”. “Russian Forest” is about the present and future of the country, which is perceived in close connection with the preservation of natural resources. The main character of the novel, Ivan Matveich Vikhrov, a forester by profession and vocation, speaks about Russian nature like this:

“Perhaps no forest fires have caused as much damage to our forests as this seductive hypnosis of the former forest cover of Russia. The true number of Russian forests has always been measured with approximate accuracy.”

Valentin Rasputin "Farewell to Matera"

In 1976, Valentin Rasputin’s story “Farewell to Matera” was published. This is a story about the life and death of the small village of Matera, on the Angara River. The Bratsk hydroelectric power station is being built on the river, and all “unnecessary” villages and islands must be flooded. The residents of Matera cannot come to terms with this. For them, the flooding of the village is their personal Apocalypse. Valentin Rasputin comes from Irkutsk, and the Angara is his native river for him, and this only makes him talk louder and more decisively about it, and about how organically everything in nature was originally arranged, and how easy it is to destroy this harmony.

Victor Astafiev "Tsar Fish"

In the same 1976, another Siberian writer Viktor Astafiev’s book “Tsar Fish” was published. Astafiev is generally close to the topic of human interaction with nature. He writes about how barbaric practices of natural resources, such as poaching, are disrupting the order of the world.

Astafiev in “The King Fish”, with the help of simple images, tells not only about the destruction of nature, but also about the fact that a person, “spiritually poaching” in relation to everything that surrounds him, begins to collapse personally.

The fight with “nature” forces the main character of the story, Ignatyich, to think about his life, about the sins he has committed:

“Ignatyich let his chin go from the side of the boat, looked at the fish, at its wide, emotionless forehead, protecting the cartilage of its head with armor, yellow and blue veins intertwined between the cartilage, and with illumination, in detail, what he had been defending himself from almost all his life was outlined to him in detail. than I remembered immediately as soon as I fell for the planes, but I pushed the obsession away from myself, defended myself with deliberate forgetfulness, but I had no strength to continue resisting the final verdict.”

Chingiz Aitmatov "The Scaffold"

The year is 1987. The Roman-Gazeta published a new novel by Chingiz Aitmatov, “The Scaffold,” where the author reflected the modern relationship between nature and man with true power of talent.

The ecological component of the novel is conveyed through a description of the life of wolves and the confrontation between wolves and humans. Aitmatov’s wolf is not a beast, he is much more humane than man himself.

The novel is imbued with a sense of responsibility for what is happening in the world, in the nature around us. He carries good principles and noble life guidelines, calling for respect for nature, because it was not created for us: we are all just part of it: “And how cramped is it for a person on the planet, how afraid is he that he won’t be able to accommodate himself, won’t be able to feed himself, won’t get along with others like themselves. And isn’t the point that prejudice, fear, hatred are narrowing the planet to the size of a stadium in which all the spectators are hostages, because both teams brought nuclear bombs with them to win, and the fans, no matter what, shout: goal, goal, goal! And this is the planet. But every person also faces an inescapable task - to be human, today, tomorrow, always. This is what history is made of.”

Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin "Ecological novel"

In 1993, Sergei Pavlovich Zalygin, writer, editor of the magazine “New World” during perestroika, thanks to whose efforts A.I. Solzhenitsyn, writes one of his last works, which he calls “Ecological Novel”. Creativity of S.P. Zalygin is especially important in that he does not have a person in the center, his literature is not anthropocentric, it is more natural.
The main theme of the novel is the Chernobyl disaster. Chernobyl is not only a global tragedy, but also a symbol of man’s guilt before nature. Zalygin's novel is imbued with strong skepticism towards man, towards the thoughtless pursuit of the fetishes of technical progress. Realize yourself as a part of nature, not destroy it and yourself - this is what the “Ecological Novel” calls for.

Tatyana Tolstaya "Kys"

The 21st century has arrived. The problem of ecology has already acquired completely different shapes than was imagined half a century or a century ago. In 2000, Tatyana Tolstaya wrote the dystopian novel “Kys”, where all the themes previously developed in Russian “natural” literature are, as it were, brought to a common denominator.

Humanity has made mistakes more than once, finding itself on the very brink of disaster. A number of countries have nuclear weapons, the presence of which threatens every minute to turn into tragedy if humanity does not realize itself. In the novel “Kys” Tolstaya describes life after a nuclear explosion, showing the tragedy of the ecological plan and the loss of moral guidelines, which are very close to the author, as it should be for every person.