Boris Aleksandrovich Ruchyev (official surname: Krivoshchyokov) (russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Ручьёв (Кривощёков), 1913—1973) was a Soviet Russian poet, most of whose life and work was related to the city of

Magnitogorsk Magnitogorsk ( rus, Магнитого́рск, p=məɡnʲɪtɐˈɡorsk, ) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River. Its population ...

. He is an author of about 30 books of poetry and a recipient of several state awards and decorations. @ the ''Zlatoust'' Encyclopedia website
/ref> After a not very successful start as a young poet, in 1930 he decides to become a construction worker at Magnitostroy, the constriction project of the

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (russian: Магнитогорский металлургический комбинат, Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat), abbreviated as MMK, is an iron and steel company located in the city of Magnit ...

. While working there, he continued his poetic works, now at the pen name, Boris Ruchyov. Soon he started gaining recognition. In 1937 he was falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary crime and in 1938 sentenced to 10 years of

Gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ...

labor camps in accordance with

Article 58 Article 58 of the Russian SFSR Penal Code was put in force on 25 February 1927 to arrest those suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. It was revised several times. In particular, its Article 58-1 was updated by the listed sub-articles and ...

. He served his time in

Sevvostlag Sevvostlag (russian: Северо-восточные исправительно-трудовые лагеря, Севвостлаг, СВИТЛ, North-Eastern Corrective Labor Camps) was a system of forced labor camps set up to satisfy the wor ...

. He is one of the poets thought to be the author of the "unofficial Gulag anthem", '' Vaninsky port''. After the release he was forbidden to settle in major cities. In 1956 he was rehabilitated, in 1957 he was restored in the rights of a poet and returned to the city of his youth, Magnitogorsk. After a while he became a recognized Soviet poet.

Awards and recognition

*1973:

Order of the October Revolution The Order of the October Revolution (russian: Орден Октябрьской Революции, ''Orden Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii'') was instituted on October 31, 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was conferr ...

* 1969:

Honorary citizen Honorary citizenship is a status bestowed by a city or other government on a foreign or native individual whom it considers to be especially admirable or otherwise worthy of the distinction. The honour usually is symbolic and does not confer an ...

of Magnitogorsk *1967: in literature *1963, 1967,

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

References

1913 births 1973 deaths Russian male poets Soviet poets Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Gulag detainees Soviet rehabilitations {{russia-poet-stub