I Will Get Off at a Distant Station

Yevgeny Nosov can be considered a representative of “village prose” and, just as importantly, of another major literary current of the 20th century: trench realism. His key themes are war and village life.

In 1957 his first publication appeared: the story “Rainbow” was published in the Kursk almanac. In 1958 his first collection of stories and novellas, “On the Fisherman’s Trail,” was released.

In 1961 he returned to Kursk and became a professional writer. In 1962 he studied at the Higher Literary Courses in Moscow.

He published widely in journals “Our Contemporary” and “New World,” where his best stories and novellas came out and earned a worthy place in Russian literature.

His large success was the novella “The Ushvyat Helm-Bearers” (1980). In 1986, under the same title, a collection of novellas and stories was published. In the same year, the book of essays “At the Far Station I Will Get Off” was released. In 1989, a book of stories for younger schoolchildren, “Where the Sun Wakes Up,” was published. In 1990 came novellas and stories “In the Open Field.” In 1992, a book of stories for older schoolchildren, “The Red Wine of Victory.”