To the 100th anniversary of Boris Chelyshev

Boris Dmitrievich Chelyshev would have turned 100 years old on the 17th of July. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, participant in the liberation of the city of Tiraspol from the Nazi invaders, candidate of philological sciences, literary researcher, journalist, he passed away in 2014 at the age of 92. Ilona Tyuryaeva, the deputy of the Supreme Council within the framework of the project “My great fellow countrymen” organized a meeting dedicated to the life path and work of “an extraordinary person with an extraordinary history”.

Boris Chelyshev was a member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Writers of the USSR, the Union of Writers of Russia and Pridnestrovie. He took themes for his creative works from life, which was full of events and meetings, his colleagues, friends and associates noted. During the Great Patriotic War, Boris Chelyshev, a young guy, went to the front as part of the infantry of the Yaroslavl division. Then he was a navigator and air reconnaissance, participated in the liberation of Tiraspol from Nazi invaders in April 1944. He received his first journalistic experience at the front. He issued the "Combat Leaflet" during the Iasi-Kishinev operation, and even became a hero of the literary work.

Boris Chelyshev lived in Tiraspol, taught at the Faculty of Philology of the Pedagogical Institute (T.G. Shevchenko PSU) since 1969. By the way, he went to lectures to his students on foot, overcoming 6 kilometers every day. He could compose a new note or prepare for a lecture during this time. It is worth noting that Boris Chelyshev stood at the origins of the creation of the Department of Journalism at the State University, where he taught until his 90s.

His student, poetess Olga Molchanova came to the meeting in memory of Boris Chelyshev. She said that the veteran tried to teach his students to analyze and express their own opinions during the lectures.

Boris Chelyshev published his works in the republican newspaper "Pridnestrovie". These were articles, sketches, stories, essays, research, front-line notes. He wrote about the war, but he liked nature more. Our favorite place for a walk was our Kitskany forest and the banks of the Dniester.

The organizers invited young people to the meeting dedicated to Boris Chelyshev. One of the goals of the My Great Compatriots project is educational, aimed at a youth audience. The project of Ilona Tyuryaeva allows you to learn about the inhabitants of the republic, who have become great figures of science, culture, heroes of social labor, doctors and scientists. It is planned to create a website of the same name with the project, where anyone can touch the life history of prominent people of Pridnestrovie.