Biography
From the family of a civil servant. In 1911, he entered the Abbot's Gymnasium, received secondary education. He graduated from the Marinagore Railway School of the 2nd degree In 1920, he joined the Red Army as a volunteer, took part in battles with the interventionists. After demobilization in 1921, he worked in the Central Committee of the LKSM; in the newspaper "Moladi Arati". Studied at BSU. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was an active participant in the literary and artistic movement in Belarus. From 1923 in the "Maladnyak" literary association, and from 1928 - in "Polimi". Member of the SP of the BSSR (since 1934). He was married, raising a child. Arrested on November 4, 1936 in Minsk at the address: st. M. Hopkago, d. 4, quarter 6. On October 28, 1937, as a "member of a counter-revolutionary organization", he was convicted by an extrajudicial body of the National Security Service of Ukraine to the VMP with confiscation of property. Shot in Minsk. He was rehabilitated by the military panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR on December 3, 1957. The personal file of A. Volny No. 11054-c is kept in the archive of the KGB of Belarus.Creativity
He made his debut in print in 1922 One of the pioneers of the adventure genre in Belarusian prose. Author of collections of poetry "Kamsamolskaya nota" (1924, with A. Aleksandrovich) "Black-haired joy" (1926), "To you" (1927). In 1925, the novel "Wolves" was published (co-authored with A. Aleksandrovich and A. Dudar). Author of the short stories "Two" (1925), "Anton Savitsky" (1927, "Soviet Belarus" newspaper). The author of a collection of feuilletons (1927) and a book of humor and feuilletons "Neighbors" (1932), which were published under the pseudonym Alyosha. Wrote plays, dramatized campaigns ("When the old man tells the truth", "Mykolka", "At the farmer's house" - 1924), the comedy "Save me, God!" (with R. Kobets, 1932) He also worked as a film dramaturg - his scripts were used to produce the films "The Pines Are Roaring" (with K. Dzerzhaviny, 1929), "Savoy Hotel" (1930), "Born in Fire" (1930), "Sunny Hike" (1931), "New Homeland" (1935) and others. In 1935, the short story "The Sixtieth Parallel" was released.Bibliography
Komsomol note: Poems. Mn., 1924 (with A. Aleksandrovich); Wolves: A Novel of Belarusian Forests / Author. A. Aleksandrovich, A. Dudar. Mn., 1925 (2nd ed. 1929); Two: A story. Mn., 1925; Black-curled joy: Poems. Mn., 1926; Wrestler: Collection. Mn., 1927; A collection of feuilletons. Mn., 1927; To you: Poems. Mn., 1927; Neighbors: Humorous and feuilletons. Mn., 1932; The Sixtieth Parallel: A Cinematic Story. Mn., 1935.Footnotes
Free Anatoly // Biographical directory. — Mn.: "Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia" named after Petrus Brovka, 1982. — Vol. 5. — P. 124. — 737 p.Literature
Repressed writers, scientists, education workers, public and cultural figures of Belarus. Encyclopedic guide in 10 volumes (15 books). T. 1. Abramovich-Kushal. / Contributed by L. U. Marakov. — Smolensk, 2003. — 480 p. —Links
Vasyl De Em (Vasyl Dranko-Maisyuk). Shot writers. Anatoly Volny, who mocked the victims of the first wave of repressions in 1930, and in 1937 there was no one to mock him // Radio Svaboda, October 11, 2017Regulatory control
LCCN: n95063737 · VIAF: 68177936 · WorldCat VIAF: 68177936References
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