The 15th Big Literary Award ceremony, the highest award of the Russian Writers Union, took place in Moscow. A famous Ufa writer and traveler, the chairman of the Department of the Russian Geographical Society in the Republic of Bashkortostan Kamil Ziganshin became a laureate of the award for 2015 with his historical novel The Gold of Aldan.
In his youth Kamil Ziganshin used to work at geological field party and go sailor on whaler «Volnyi». The writer traveled extensively in Russia and around the world, including being a member of the expedition of the Russian Geographical Society.
Under the guidance of Kamil the Board of Trustees of the Department of the Russian Geographical Society in the Republic of Bashkortostan was founded (the first meeting of the Board was held in October of 2015), the work of sections of the Department on domestic tourism, ecology and two disciplines adjacent to geography has been organized, and work on attracting youth to the regional Department of the Society is being done.
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The novel-dilogy about Old Believers named The Gold of Aldan has been reissued for times in Moscow already. During the awarding ceremony the Chairman of the Writers Union of Russia Valeriy Ganichev noted that the themes and the characters of the novel are so actual nowadays, that it should be written a letter to the Cinematography Committee of the Russian Federation with a proposal to make film based on the work. Besides, the director of Moscow publishing house Arthur Artunyan asked the laureate a permission to issue the novel in the deluxe version.
The Big Literary Award is being given to the authors of poetry, prose, dramatic works, which are standing out with loyalty to the humanistic traditions of Russian literature, deep penetration to the moral and psychological basis of being of a person and a society.
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Earlier the laureates of this prestigious award for their creative achievements had become such great masters of artistic expression as Valentin Rasputin, Dmitry Balashov, Mikhail Alekseyev, Victor Likhonosov, Vladimir Karpov, Vladimir Kostrov, Yury Loshits, Nikolay Skatov, Mikhail Nojkin, Mikhail Lobanov, Alexander Segen and others.
The novel can be read on the website of Kamil Ziganshin.