An eventful life

An evening dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the creative activity of a journalist, writer, poet, journalist, traveler Nikandr Elagin was held at the office of “The Obnovlenie” (Renewal)”, according to the official website of the party.

The festive meeting, which brought together Nikandr Anatolyevich's colleagues and friends, as well as students, was organized by the deputy of the Supreme Council Ilona Tyuryaeva and the head of the methodical department of the Party’s Central Administration Tatyana Kosenko. Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council Galina Antyufeyeva congratulated the writer. The Vice Speaker thanked Nikandr Elagin for the work and noted that it’s great happiness to know a person who loves people, who has something to share with young people, and who can teach to see something special.

Nikandr Elagin was born on October 14, 1940 in the village of Stechkino, Sosnovsky district of the Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) region. The first place of his work was the editorial office of the district newspaper, where he came in the winter of 1959. Thus began his ministry to journalism and literature.

Nikandr Elagin always drew plots for books and themes for articles from life rich in events, sometimes incredible. He did not interrupt newspaper work with conscription. At the height of the Caribbean crisis, Nikandr Anatolyevich was in Cuba as a Soviet military specialist. As a member of the military-strategic operation "Anadyr", the largest after World War II and having no analogues in the art of war, he was awarded state awards. Later in Pridnestrovie, the writer’s book “Welcome back, Cuba!” was published, containing memories and photographs of former servicemen.

Nikandr Elagin and his family moved to Tiraspol in 1964. He worked as the editor of the mass media newspaper Molodezh Moldavii. From 1970 to 1975 Nikandr Anatolyevich was a correspondent and editor of the long-standing edition Energetik. At the same time, he received a degree in journalism from Moscow State University.

For twenty years, Elagin lived and worked in the Taimyr Autonomous District at the beginning as a correspondent, department head, deputy editor, and then editor of the district newspaper Sovetsky Taimyr. He also worked as a correspondent for the Krasnoyarsk Worker, Zapolyarny Vestnik (the newspaper of the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine). Here he begins to develop the theme of the future book “Arctic Man’s Brothers”, which was published in 2002.

Returning to Tiraspol, Nikandr Anatolyevich worked at the Olvia Press news agency, taught journalism at PSU, was deputy head of the Republican Department of Printing and Publishing, and editor of the newspaper Yunost Pridnestrovya. Essays, short stories, poems and songs by Nikandr Elagin were published in collective collections of publishing houses in Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Chisinau, Dudinka, Tiraspol. In 2001, his documentary “Address of the Sun: Dniester” was published in Tiraspol. In recent years, he has been engaged in publishing through the non-profit association Laboratory of Publishing Creativity "Elagin Nikandr and Tsvetkov Alexey". Alexey Tsvetkov is the grandson of Nikandr Anatolyevich, who helps with the design and layout of books.

In 2010, in Tiraspol, to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, a documentary journalistic dilogy of the writer “Arctic Men’s Brothers” was published. Nikandr Elagin noted that this book was published in Pridnestrovie with the support of the state.

The result of half a century was the book “Point of Return - the Third Pole”, which included essays, critical articles, polemical and travel notes, journalism of different years. This is a real reader for a novice journalist. Communicating as part of a creative evening with young people, Nikandr Elagin urged the children to learn "to understand local topics, events, people, and use the Internet with feeling, really, with alignment." This is the only way to achieve success in journalism, says Nikandr Elagin.

The journalist is currently working in “The Pridnestrovie” republican newspaper where his materials about people and favorite land are published.