Tropins biography

Gennadievna r. In the year she graduated from the biological and soil faculty of Irkutsk State University. From the years - a researcher at a specially protected natural territory - the Baikal National Park. Co -author of the Red Book of the Irkutsk Region. The author of several children's series of books: “Tales and stories of the Baikal shores”, “Taging fables” and “Thai riddles, consisting of short stories, fairy tales and poems.

All works of the author are imbued with unlimited love for nature and a feeling of inextricable human connection with it, and reliable information from the life of animals is intertwined with elements of the artistic style of the narrative, helping easily and at ease to know the nature of the native land. Maya Tropina is a laureate of the international children's literature contest “Bridge to the future -” in the nomination “Short Prose for Children” The story “About how the run went to look for a new house.” Four times the winner of the regional literary contest “Best Book of the Year”: the nomination “The best publication for children and youth.

Prose ” -“ funny cases from the life of a zoologist, or traveling near the edge of the earth ”and“ spring came to Baikal ”; nomination "Best edition for children and youth. Poetry ” -“ Tags' riddles ”; The nomination “The best popular science local history publication for children and youth”-“Hello, Lake Baikal! I was born an autobiography in the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk, in the east of Kazakhstan, May 31 of the year.

When I was five years old, the family moved to the city of Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. My childhood passed here. But the years of youth are already connected with the city of the Bratsk Irkutsk region. There in the year she graduated from school and left for Irkutsk to enter the university. Since then, I have been living in this city, here in the student she married Irkutsk. And my parents have repeatedly changed their place of residence.

I remember how in my student years I went to visit them and to the city of Chimkent is the south of Kazakhstan, near Tashkent, and to the Volga-Mother, to the city of Volgograd. My family also loved to travel. And I, while still a child,, together with my parents, visited many corners of our vast country: from Crimea to Baikal and Gor Sikhote-Alin, from the Caucasus to the foothills of the Pamir and Altai, from the Baltic to the Japanese seas.

Everywhere I was met by different and in its own way amazing nature. There were unforgettable meetings, curious and funny moments took place. Probably, this circumstance influenced the choice of my future profession. And not only that.

The fact is that indirectly in choosing a profession my father participated. He always brought different books from his many business trips. Among them was not only literature about art, but also many publications about nature, both scientific and artistic. I read them with rapture. And when my peers walked in the yard, I studied the books brought by my father, sometimes sitting until late in the evening.

My table was often littered with thick volumes - from encyclopedias like “plant life” and “world of insects” to the determinants of vertebrates. Still studying in high school, I knew that I would certainly become a biologist. Later, this period of her life was described in her story “The Criminal Card” of the Amur Regulations “The book“ Funny cases from the life of the zoologist, or traveling at the edge of the Earth: “...

I remember how in my school years I was read out by the works of Gerald Darrell and Joy Adamson, Ernest Seton-Tompson and John McKinnon ... I loved all wild animals, all, without exceptions, but all, without exceptions, but without exceptions, but without exception A special place in my heart was nevertheless occupied by cats: lions, tigers, cheetahs ... It was then that I decided for myself that I would certainly become a biologist, and dreamed of devoting my whole life to studying a motley cat family.

And so, as a third -year student, I remained faithful to my own children's promise: at the moment when it was time to decide on the future specialization, I said with confidence that I would do cats. But my zeal to such a subject of research and optimism on this subject at the Department of Zoology, alas, were not divided. They only laughed there: “The girls have no place next to the predators.

You will be engaged in mice, future theriologist. ” Of course, I love rodents, but not so. If not predators, then - only snakes. So I have chosen herpetology as decisively and irrevocably with my future specialization ... ” Instead of becoming teriologist and studying animals that feed their offspring with milk, I began to seriously study snakes, lizards, toads and frogs ... I devoted seven years to the study of the lifestyle of these animals while I worked as a researcher at the Baikal National Park.

But I not only studied their life in nature. Predpers and amphibians in our Baikal region live a little, but there are rare, “red -blooded” species. That's what I tried to help them: I was developing measures to protect them. I made a promise to protect animals as a child. My grandfather was a professional hunter. I remember how I cried at those moments when he made skins of the boiled animals.

It was then that I realized for myself that I really want to become a defender of nature. And she became.She even managed to write a small popular science book “Amphibia and reptiles of the western coast of Lake Baikal: definition, ecology, protection”. I really want to believe that the information contained in this book will help preserve rare types of amphibians and reptiles of the Baikal coast.

I loved and read about animals and watch them in the wild. But most of all in childhood I liked to communicate with them: to hold in my hands, to care. I remember how I am still a schoolchildren of elementary grades almost every day ran behind the river. Immediately behind our house was Junnatka - a station of young naturalists of the city of Achinsk. There, I enjoyed feeding the inhabitants of aviaries and numerous cells, to restore cleanliness in their dwellings.

It was in my school years that I realized that any living creature is not a toy, that it also feels both joy and pain, almost like a person. And requires respect and respect. I carried this love for animals through my whole conscious life. I always tried to help the homeless and in trouble to living beings. Many of them later became my household. And now, a red -haired young cat is running around our apartment.

I picked it up in the fall two years ago at the door of a large supermarket. People, as usual, hurried about their business, and they did not care about the little redhead lump, scurrying under their feet ... unable to see it, I took the kitten home. So, this four -legged favorite of our family even managed to get to the pages of one of my stories: “...

While I wrote these lines, our“ tiger ”, so we, loving, often call our young pet, having played up, lay down on my knees and dozed peacefully. It seemed that the cat was clearly satisfied with the fact that, like that, easily, he got to the pages of this story. Although this story is not at all about him, but about the Amur Tiger ... "An excerpt from the story" Traces of the Amur Tiger ", the book" Funny cases from the life of the zoologist, or traveling near the edge of the Earth.

" Meanwhile, amazing creatures live on the banks of Baikal: an elegant snake - a patterned runner and a small amphibian - the Mongolian toad. The number of these "red -black" animals has been greatly reduced in recent years. So, still working in the Baikal National Park, I thought for a long time how to help them and think so that it became easier to live on the Baikal coast.

And then, after all, look completely disappear from our Baikal coast. And then the case helped. Once, Sofya Nikolaevna Buntovskaya came to our department and brought her two books about animals. At that time she worked in the Education Department of the Baikal-Lensky Reserve. Through his tales, love for animals instills. But what if I write about my wards?

The more people know about them, the better. ” It was at that our meeting with Sofia Nikolaevna that I had the idea to write a book for children about the life of these animals. But one thing is to solve, and another is to carry out the plan. After all, I never wrote anything like that, and at that time I worked on a popular science book about amphibians and reptiles. I had no time or the corresponding mood, even the thoughts of suitable then I had no mention.

However, fate was pleased to dispose of differently, and the book came out “Amphibia and reptiles of the western coast of Lake Baikal: definition, ecology, security” was published almost a year later than my first children's book with fairy tales. I never thought that I would begin to engage in literary work, but once I remembered funny cases from the life of the student years, interesting stories of fairy tales and stories for children came.

My first book for children of preschool and primary school age was published in the year. I called this cycle of stories and fairy tales about the nature of our native land: "Tales and stories of the Baikal coast." I remember how an autumn night of the year I could not sleep, and then the phrase occurred to me: “A little tadpoles swimming off the coast. The size of nails: a black rounded head and a tail in addition to this all began.

And then a phrase came for another fairy tale: “One snake lived on the shores of Lake Baikal. Her name was the patterned runner. The Poloz really liked to soak under the warm rays of the sun. And he also liked to enjoy a small fish that he was floating at the very shore ... "A passage from the fairy tale" About how a run went a new house to look for. " So my first book was born.

But I was worried if the children would like it. And first, my adult son and husband already read it. They liked her, but they are not children! As it turned out, I was in vain worried about this. It was above all praise. So the book is interesting and necessary. And the next year I ventured to take part in the competition of children's literature and, not hoping for anything, sent one of my fairy tale there.