Nosov Nikolai Nikolaevich was born in 1908, November 10 according to the old style. His early childhood passed in the city of Irpin. At that time it was a railway station located near Kiev. Residents of Kiev rented summer cottages here, built houses, as the nature in this area was very beautiful. The station was located in a forest area, on the banks of the Irpen River. In modern times, it is a city in the Kiev region, very beautiful and cozy, with many parks and alleys, rest houses, resorts and boarding houses. It is an all-Ukrainian health resort with a rich cultural life.
A family
Nicholas's family at that time consisted of himself, his parents and older brother. Father, Nikolai Petrovich, worked as an artist, gave concerts as part of the Siberian Tramp quartet, and sometimes toured. Mom, Varvara Nikolaevna, was engaged in household work. The elder brother Peter was the weather of Nicholas. Therefore, they have always been inseparable friends - and in the game, and in pranks, and fishing, and traveling. The time was carefree, happy. The arrival of the father was always a wonderful holiday for the brothers.
Their mother was a calm and happy woman. The days of the kids were filled with games or something else interesting. Many years later, the writer Nikolai Nosov in his work "Secret at the bottom of the well" will describe in great detail this time, down to the brightness of the sun, the color of a tablecloth on the veranda, where in the morning, small and sleepy, he ran to drink tea with his mother. And it will become clear how, probably, the writer yearned for that time, why he carried this memory through his whole life. And how she reflected in all the works of the author. It is known that a little later Nikolai appeared younger brother and sister.
Kiev
When Nikolai Nosov was 6 years old, the family decided to move to Kiev, as the children had to go to the gymnasium. And the next stage in the life of the writer was a private seven-year gymnasium in the city of Kiev. Schooling was held with varying success. Times have changed: the First World War, the February Revolution, then the October Revolution, the Civil War ... All this happened in the school years of Nosov’s pupil Nikolai.
There wasn’t enough food, heat, clothes, factories, plants, transport stopped working. The whole family of the writer suffered from typhus. The gymnasium worked, and the teachers, although incomplete, tried to give the children knowledge. The writer had many hobbies at that time: he learned to play the mandolin, tried to love the violin, but left this lesson. He also published X magazine with friends, or rather, a monthly notebook with stories, pictures, and stories. At the same time he became interested in chess, theater, went with his brother to all the performances where his father participated. But most of all he was fascinated by chemistry. Even with a classmate, he created a laboratory at that house.
And so the decision came: after seven years to graduate from evening school for secondary education, and then enter the Polytechnic Institute in Kiev at the Faculty of Chemistry. But while studying at the evening school, Nosov Nikolai Nikolaevich was seriously interested in photo-making and entered the Kiev Art Institute in the film-photo department. It was already 1927, and two years later Nikolai decided to transfer to the Moscow Institute of Cinematography.
Moscow
In 1932, student Nosov Nikolai graduated from the institute and got a job at Soyuzkino as a director of educational, popular science, and animated films. Then he married, a son was born. He began his creative career. In 1943 he received a state award - the Order of the Red Star - for a series of training films for the Red Army.
Writer's work
We are familiar with the writer's work since childhood. From early childhood, every Soviet schoolchild in the closet or desk contained books by Nikolai Nosov. For some, they had a cover that had been swollen with time and covered with pages. Many read and reread the funny, easy, kind stories of Nikolai Nosov. In addition to books, he was published in the magazines "Murzilka", "Bonfire", in the newspaper "Pioneer truth". The first publication of his work occurred in 1938.
Nicholas began his work by writing the short stories "Zatenikiki", "Live Hat", "Cucumbers", "Mishkina porridge" and so on. All of them are collected in the collection "Tuk-tuk-tuk", which was released in 1945. Further, the novels “The Merry Family” and “Vitya Maleev at School and at Home” were written (the state award was awarded to the writer for the last story). The writer received the next state award in 1969 for a fairy tale novel, a trilogy created in the fifties. It tells about the adventures of little men living in the Flower City. Parts of this novel were named by Nikolai Nosov: “Dunno in the Solar City”, “Adventures of Dunno and his friends”, “Dunno on the Moon”.
The sunniest and most floral city that is in the writer's soul seems to be the place where he was born and raised.
Reading his works, one can understand how kind, talented and responsible the author is. It can be seen that Nikolai is a man with a great soul, a desire to help everyone, to teach the unconscious. From childhood, he was distinguished by such positive character traits. They can be seen when he pulled his younger brother and sister to school or when he taught street children to read poetry, so that later their work was easy. Or when, after the war, for children who survived the hostilities, he began to write short stories and tales for educational purposes. Care and love for people, homesickness, I think, are in all the works of Nikolai Nosov.