Deputy Toporkov Biography

He is well known and remembered in the Lipetsk region. A rich literary heritage remains - 17 books. Toporkov was no less than his prose was proud of what he worked as a journalist. And he began the Lithuanian employee in the Hvorostyan newspaper Red Banner, then he was in charge of the agricultural department there. The young talented journalist was immediately noticed, Toporkov became the responsible secretary in the Leninsky newspaper Oktyabrsky district, and later the editor of the Stanovlyansk newspaper Zvezda.

Without a notebook, the journalist’s experience Vladimir Fedorovich recalled interestingly: “In early December, I, who had just noted my fly and already having some experience in journalistic work, adopted the Red Banner of the Krasnoye Banner to the post of Lithuanian employee of the correspondent. We met affably, but from the very beginning - no concession.

The first task is the first serious test for the beginner. A business trip to the Nizhnematrenskaya MTS. At that time, there were no roads with a solid coating, there was no bus message. I had to get to the place of destination by passing transport. In summer - in cars. But in winter it was much more difficult. It’s good if you manage to get to the tractor sleigh.

This vehicle was two huge trimmed logs, knocked out from the bottom with iron skids, on top - a boardwalk. A clumsy wagon dragged a caterpillar tractor in tow. ” He had a chance to work in the district committee of the Komsomol, and to head the CPSU district committee. Remembering his work in the newspaper Zvezda, Vladimir Fedorovich wrote: “Not eight and a half years old, from a year, I edited the district newspaper and is very grateful to fate.

This position made it possible not only to improve its journalistic skill, but also to deeply understand the life, the economy of the district. Where just did not have to go over the years! It seems that in each of the settlements I either spent the night or visited, spoke at party and collective farm meetings with lectures, and finally simply prepared articles and correspondence. ” Meeting with people, he did not like to resort to the help of a tool usual for journalists - a notebook.

Maybe that's why I preferred to make notes after conversations, in fresh traces. ” Toporkov knew how to listen to people, always tried to help. He was least like an official. With his journalism, he fought for a better life, defended the ideals of social justice. He was talented not only in journalism and literature, but also in any business for which he took.

Portrait in the novels ”Anatoly Vasilievich Konovalov, who worked with him for many years in the editorial office of the Stanovlyansk“ Star ”. The reader will find a lot of interesting things in it: moments of life, events and facts, and most importantly, he will closely meet an ax-journalist, writer, and a patriot of the Russian land. His biography began quite usually.

He graduated from the Hvorostyan secondary school, the Usman agricultural college, the Michurinsky Pedagogical Institute. For more than six years, Vladimir Fedorovich headed the Dobrovsky district. At this time, the region’s economy was significantly strengthened, the social and everyday sphere developed successfully. Toporkov left a good memory of himself. Dobrovtsy remembered him as an indifferent person, and most importantly - attentive, good in relation to people.

With the pain of the village, he was not one of those who, for the sake of political conjuncture, cheated on his beliefs. Vladimir Toporkov remained faithful to his beliefs to the end. It is no coincidence that he worked as his own correspondent for the newspaper Sovetskaya Russia in years.

An important milestone in his fate can be considered an election to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Toporkov was a deputy of two convocations - and years. At this time, he consistently advocated the preservation of the social rights of citizens and a careful attitude to natural resources that had recently belonged to the state. Journalism brought him to great literature.

In his books, clinic passionately conducted a conversation about the village, he loved the rural way of life and was ill for him. Vladimir Fedorovich wrote many of his works in good. The prototypes of the heroes of the stories and stories of the writer are people of labor, his countrymen. He rightfully became an honored cultural worker of the Russian Federation, the laureate of the I.

Bunin Regional Literary Prize, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and medals. Vladimir Fedorovich died on June 18. In the district center, a good street is named after the writer, a memorial plaque is installed on the house where he lived. In the year, the annual prize for journalists and freelance authors of the district newspaper “Banner of October” was established in his honor.