Belyaevsky Festival 2015

In the city of Pushkin (Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg) on September 25 and 26, 2015, the second Belyaevsky literary festival was held, dedicated to the annual presentation ceremony named after A. R. Belyaev (Belyaevsky Prize). On the first day, meetings with writers and laureates of the premium of past years were held in city libraries and cinema "Avangard". A demonstration of films made based on the works of Alexander Belyaev took place. The main event of the second day of the festival was the award ceremony itself, which was held in the Pushkin House of Culture with the support of the district administration.

The Belyaev Prize was founded in 1990 by a section of the scientific, artistic and science fiction literature of the Leningrad Organization of the Union of Writers of the USSR. It was awarded for achievements in the field of fantastic and scientific and artistic literature, and it was originally assumed to be handed over once every two years. By force of the genre orientation, it was called Belyaevskaya, since Alexander Romanovich Belyaev was the first domestic professional writer to work both in science fiction and in the field of popularization.

Soon, in 1992, the status of the prize was revised, and it turned into the annual, awarded on behalf of the literary charitable Belyaevsky Fund and the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg. In such quality, she lasted in 1997, and then, due to the liquidation of the Belyaevsky Fund, a four -year break occurred in her activity. In 2002, the newly created Organizing Committee of the Belyaevsky Prize secondly revised its status and refused to award it for science fiction, since there are more than enough different awards in this field of literature, while works of popular, popular and scientific and artistic literature are noted only by the Enlightener Prize (since 2008). Since 2014, the Belyaevsky Prize organization has been organizing the support and development of literature.

The Belyaeva Prize is honorary and, as a rule, does not have a monetary component. It consists of a breast medal and a diploma (for twice laureates - a desktop medal and a diploma; for three times laureates - a silver damage medal and a diploma).

The laureates of the Belyaevsky Prize in different years became:

Writers: Marianna Alferova, Pavel Amnuel, Mikhail Akhmanov, Andrei Balabukha, Alexander Patients, Kir Bulychev, Alexander Gromov, Oleg Divov, Alexander Eteev, Vasily Zvyagintsev, Lev Kuklin, Andrey Lazarchuk, Svyatoslav Loginov, Vladimir Mikhailov, Elena Pervushin, Gennady Prashkevich, Nikolai, Nikolai Romanetsky, Boris Rudenko, Vyacheslav Rybakov, Maria Semenova, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and others;
Translators: Alexandra Glebovskaya, Alexander Guzman, Valery Karik, Natalya Lisova, Maria Trofimchik, Boris Starostin, Sergey Stepanov, Tatyana Usova, Viktor Shnitka, Alexander Shcherbakov and others;
literary critics: Sergey Artamonov, Anatoly Britikov, Boris Egorov, Vladimir Gopman, Vladimir Puziy, Leonid Smirnov, Rebeka Frumkin and others;
Journalists: Alexander Gordon, Tatyana Grekova, Vladimir Gubarev, Alexander Nikonov, Mikhail Popov and others;
Scientists: Igor Alimov, Igor Afanasyev, Leonid Vishnyatsky, Boris Egorov, Alexander Zheleznyakov, Sergey Zhukov, Alexander Zubov, Oleg Korottsev, Alexander Lavrenov, Alexander Malinovsky, Lev Mints, Mikhail Nikitin, Vladimir Reshetnikov, Boris Sergeyev, Vladimir Surmkin, Boris Chertok, Alfred Shchegolev I other;
Publishers: Alexandria, Algorithm, Alpina Non-Fixh, Amphora, AST, Century-2, Veche, Polygon, North-West, Eksmo and others;
Magazines: “Around the World”, “Universe, Space, Time”, “Machines and Mechanisms”, “Science and Life”, “Popular Mechanics”, “Rodnik of Knowledge”, “Chemistry and Life” and others.

In 2012, the “Trinity Option - Science” was the laureate of the award.

Currently, the jury of the prize is recruited from laureates of past years, and the composition is updated annually. This year, the jury included Pavel Amnuel (Israel), Andrei Balabukha (St. Petersburg), Andrei Burovsky, Sergey Gordienko (Kyiv), Alexander Zheleznyakov (St. Petersburg), Sergey Zhukov (Moscow), Anton Pervushin (St. Petersburg), Pavel Podkosov (Moscow), Sergey Ryazantsev (St. Petersburg).

Jury Secretary A. Pervushin and chairman of the jury A. Zheleznyakov

The number of nominations of the prize was constantly growing. At present, there are ten of them, but proposals are not always received to fill out all. This year, two nominations turned out to be free and double the "bonuses" were awarded at their expense (in the nominations "Best Translation" and "Restoration of Justice").

2015 winners became the following nominations:

“The best original Enlighten the Tel Book of the Year” : Boris Stern (Moscow) - for the book “A Breakthrough over the World. About the cosmology of earthlings and European ”(M.: Troitsk, 2014).

“The best translation of the enlightener of the book into Russian ” : Elena Naimark, Julia Naimark (Moscow) - for the translation of the book of Richard Forti “Trilobites. Witnesses of evolution ”(M.: Alpina Non-Fix, 2014); Nikolai Karaev (Tallinn) - for the translation of the book by Nassim Taleb “Antimpercity. How to benefit from chaos. ” (M.: ABC-Atticus, 2014).

“The best original series of essays devoted to either a common topic or a detailed essay ” : Timofei Skorenko (Moscow)-for the cycle of essays “Entertaining Scientific Experiments and Master classes of Tim Skorenko” published in the journal Popular Mechanics during 2014.

“The publisher - for the best under the border of educational literature issued during the year” : the publishing house of the Quarter (Voronezh) - for the publication in 2014 of the three -volume general designer Vasily Pavlovich Mishin “Diaries. Posts and memories. "

“The magazine - for the most interest of this activity during the year” : the magazine “In the World of Science” (Moscow) - following the results of activities in 2014.

"Special Jury Prize " : Svyatoslav Loginov (St. Petersburg)-for the book "precious than many (medical chronicles)." (St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg, 2013).

“Restoration of justice” : Dmitry Mant (St. Petersburg)-for many years of educational activity, expressed, including in working on the fundamental encyclopedic reference book “Cosmos Day after Day” (2001-2014); Julia Andreeva (St. Petersburg)-for a series of artistic biographies of outstanding people of the past, published in past years and includes, in particular, the books "Aivazovsky" (metro: Veche, 2013) and "Karl Bryullov" (M.: Veche, 2013).

“Educational or scientifically - popular site - for the most terrible activity in the forerunner of the period” : Vitaly Egorov (Moscow) - for the blog “Open Cosmos of the Green Cat” ( Zelenyikot.livejournal.com ) and the site “Zelenyikot: Open Cosmos” ( Zelenyikot.com ).

In addition to Belyaevskaya, the so -called partnership prizes were also awarded at the ceremony: “The door to the summer” (the Literary Studio Award Andrei Balabukha and Leonid Smirnov), “Double Star” (awarded for literary science fiction as a genre) and “Pearl grain” (the prize to the best authors published in Aurainfo Publishing House).

Congratulations to the laureates!