I Live Through That War

6 hrs. 52 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Collection

Narrator Collective Project

Description

A collection of stories by modern writers about the Great Patriotic War. On May 9 this year we celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the end of the war that was the most terrible and most blood-drenched for us. Exactly for us—because we are descendants of those who did not return, who reached Berlin, Königsberg, and Prague, who with their life and their death gave us a chance to grieve and laugh, to work and raise children. They fulfilled their soldier’s duty.
Each year there are fewer and fewer veterans, and now our duty is to preserve and pass on to children and grandchildren the memory of them—so that it will live on. Because as soon as this memory disappears, the war will have a chance to return.

The implementation of this project—which can safely be called international—was carried out by a group of enthusiasts living not only in the cities of Russia, but also beyond its borders.

As for the collection itself: it is in a sense divided into two parts.
The first tells about searchers, describing how and why they search for the fallen, what interferes with them or, on the contrary, helps them in their difficult work.
The second includes stories about the war—about veterans today.

Authors:

Gennady Beigin
From Minsk, where he lived until 1989 and from where he moved to Canada, to the city of Toronto, where he lives to this day. Retired. By education: civil/structural engineer.

Aleksei Ivakin
Lives in the city of Kirov
Writer, laureate of the A.P. Chekhov Literary Prize
Commissioner of the Kirov regional youth search organization “Dolg” and commander of the Sloboda search detachment “Vozvrashchenie” (“Return”).

Oleg Tarugin
Born in 1973 in the city of Omsk. Currently lives in the city of Odessa.
The first of his published books was written in 2002, though it saw the light only two years later, released under the title “The Sleeping City” by the publishing house “Armada – Alfa-book.”
To date, he has published sixteen books with the publishing houses Armada, Lenizdat, AST, Eksmo, and Yauza.

Andrei Yalash
Lives in the city of Murmansk.
Author of the story “Rain”
“Once, having come home from another search trip, from the area of fierce fighting in 1942–43, I decided to write this story… Based on real events that happened there many years ago.”

Sergei Ziganshin
Ensign. Serves in the Khabarovsk Krai. Head of a radio beacon in a communications battalion.

Sergei Kim
Junior sergeant. Sniper. Platoon leader. Motorized infantryman. The 39th separate Red Banner motorized rifle brigade.

Contents:

01. Gennady Beigin — May 9 (performed by Galina and Sergei Brusnitsyn)
02. Aleksei Ivakin — Burial (read by Andrei Laguta)
03. Aleksei Ivakin — Searcher’s syndrome (read by Andrei Laguta)
04. Aleksei Ivakin — The first watch (read by Andrei Laguta)
05. Aleksei Ivakin — Medallions (read by Andrei Laguta)
06. Aleksei Ivakin — After the war (read by Andrei Laguta)
07. Aleksei Ivakin — Searcher’s everyday life (read by Andrei Laguta)
08. Aleksei Ivakin — Searcher’s money (read by Andrei Laguta)
09. Aleksei Ivakin — Work. Tactics. (read by Andrei Laguta)
10. Aleksei Ivakin — Black searchers (read by Andrei Laguta)
11. Aleksei Ivakin — Searcher’s iron (read by Andrei Laguta)
12. Aleksei Ivakin — Searcher’s mysticism (read by Andrei Laguta)
13. Aleksei Ivakin — Searcher’s disorder (read by Andrei Laguta)
14. Aleksei Ivakin — Searchers and police (read by Andrei Laguta)
15. Aleksei Ivakin — Conclusion (read by Andrei Laguta)
16. Aleksei Ivakin — They found me in a pit (read by Lev Preobrazhensky)
17. Oleg Tarugin — Last September (read by Vyacheslav Rumyantsev)
18. Aleksei Ivakin — Black butterflies (read by Lev Preobrazhensky)
19. Alexander Grok — Men at war (read by ZERZIA)
20. Andrei Kokoulin — Shell shock (read by Dmitry Fineinstein)
21. Andrei Yalash — Rain (read by Lev Preobrazhensky)
22. Aleksei Ivakin — Line of life (read by Dmitry Fineinstein)
23. Aleksei Ivakin — Equilibrium (read by Vyacheslav Esikov)
24. Alexander Grok — Gray-haired (read by Semyon Yanishevsky)
25. Aleksei Ivakin — My generation (read by Lev Preobrazhensky)
26. Aleksei Ivakin, Andrei Rusov — Pre(ced)ent [Chairman?] (read by A. Laguta, A. Rayder, L. Preobrazhensky)
27. Sergei Ziganshin, Aleksei Ivakin, Sergei Kim — Flash drive (read by Alexander Rayder)
28. Aleksei Ivakin, Andrei Rusov — And one man in the field is a warrior (read by Andrei Laguta)
29. Aleksei Ivakin — Why did you deceive me… (read by Light)
30. Aleksei Ivakin — Nerves (read by Lev Preobrazhensky)