Sergey Trakhimenok
Russian and Belarusian writer
Sergey Aleksandrovich Trakhimenok, (Belarusian: Сяргей Аляксандравіч Трахімёнак, born February 7, 1950, in Karasuk, Novosibirsk Region) is a Belarusian writer who publishes in the Russian language. He is also a screenwriter, Doctor of Law, professor, secretary of the Belarusian Writers' Union, and a member of the Union of Russian Writers.
He is the author of thirty books of prose, the laureate of the "Gold Cupid" National Award (Belarus), the "Reward of the Ural Federal District", and an active associate of Association of Writers of Ural, Siberia and Povolzh'ya.
According to the philological scientific research of Russian Professor Alla Bolshakova: Russian-Belarusian writer Sergei Trahimenok belongs to the cohort of those "marginal" writers who continue to create works in Russian, despite the difficult process of rebuilding national identity in the former Soviet republics.
Trakhimenok is best known for his spy novel, Notes of a Black Colonel, psychological detective novel Burnout Syndrome (2008), and A Petri Bowl or Russian Civilization: the Genesis and Survival Problems (2012). As a screenwriter, he is a member of BELVIDEOCENTER. In 2014, he received the Finalist Certificate at the New York Festivals of World Best TV & Films in the competition Television – Documentary/Information Program in the category of Docudrama for his screenplay for the film Albert Veinik's Attraction.
Career
Trakhimenok served in the army and worked at a factory. In 1977, he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Institute of Law, Faculty of Law. In 1981, he participated in the Higher Courses of the KGB. Since 1990, he has been living in Minsk and received two scientific degrees: Doctor of Law (1999) and professor (2003). He became a member of the Writers' Union of Russia in 1994 and the Union of Writers of Belarus in 1996.
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