Vasily Belov [SEP] country of citizenship
newspaper) on issues like the demise of small Russian villages and the degradation of the Russian language.
In 1997 Vasily Belov became the Honorary citizen of Vologda. In the 2000s he was awarded the (2002), the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (IV, 2003) and the Russian Federation's State Prize (2004) for literature and arts.
Vasily Belov devoted his last years to the restoration of the Nikolskaya church in Timonikha where he had been baptized as a child. He financed the project and worked
and Caravaggio to Salvador Dalí and Picasso, from Sergius of Radonezh to Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow.
1942 — Molodaya Gvardiya published Aleksandr Tvardovsky's popular poem, "Vasily Tyorkin", and Konstantin Simonov's "Lyrics".
1960s — In 1963, the first book of Vasily Shukshin's short stories "Villagers" was published. The year 1964 was marked by the release of the book of river stories by Vasily Belov, in 1971, a collection of his prose, "Rural Stories", was published