Sergey Trakhimenok

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.

In 1977, he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Institute of Law, Faculty of Law.

His stories were published in the weekly Youth of Siberia, and later in the magazines of Siberian Lights, Neman, Spring, Nemiga, Adventurer, Private Life, Belarusian Thought (Minsk), Novel-Magazine of the XXIst Century, Our Contemporary, Don (Rostov-on-Don), Rising-up (Voronezh), Space (Alma-Ata), Ladoga (St. Petersburg), Lights of Kuzbass (Kemerovo), "The Slav" (Kharkov), etc. In his first short novel The Hostage (1978), he described the first manifestations of terrorism in Russia.

In the story, the hostages were not the only ones who had been captured by criminals, but also those who had to release them because they were on duty, and in those days they were not ready for this.

Trakhimenok began his literary activity in the late 1980s, mostly in the genre of adventure novel and detective.

In 1981, he participated in the Higher Courses of the KGB.

But this short novel was published only in 1988.

A number of Trakhimenok's short stories and short novels are devoted to the events and people's fates during the Second World War.

For example, his "military prose" (Lieutenant Priblagin's Case, Crumbs, Dearest kryvinka, To the ceremonial march).

Some of his stories have the theme "Children and War" (Crumbs, Dearest kryvinka, Belli puerri).

There are author’s essays on this subject as well (War in the lens watering, A drop in the ocean of victory and others. In his social psychological realistic stories Vanity of Vanities, Bird Cherry Bloomed, The Prosecutor's Blood, The Driver, A Terrible Word "Cinema", A Needle in the Square, and Loop of Morbut, the author implies the knowledge of psychology of characters with clearly spelled out motivation for their actions. Trakhimenok is called the Master of Acute Plot because most of his fiction is created in the detective genre or detective fiction.

Some newsreels and documentaries were filmed on scenarios of Sergey Alexandrovich filmed:

Большакова Алла.

Правда факта и поиск героя: о прозе Сергея Трахимёнка // Сибирские огни.

Since 1990, he has been living in Minsk and received two scientific degrees: Doctor of Law (1999) and Professor (2003).

He became the Member of the Writers' Union of Russia in 1994 and the Union of Writers of Belarus in 1996.

In 1996–1999, he headed the department of legal disciplines of the National Security Institute of the Republic of Belarus.

In 1999–2000, he was appointed as the Head of the Situation and Analytical Center of the State Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus.

From 2005 to 2007, Trakhimenok was a Deputy Director of the Civil Service Institute, and since 2008 he’s been the Director of the Research Institute of Theory and Practice of the State Administration at The Academy of Public Administration, under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus.

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.

№ 2. — 2010 Alla Bolshakova.

Truth of Fact and Searching for a Hero: about Sergey Trakhimenok's fiction [http://magazines.russ.ru/sib/2010/2/bo12.html Большакова Алла.

Правда факта и поиск героя: о прозе Сергея Трахимёнка // Сибирские огни.

№ 2. — 2010]

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.

Trakhimenok served in the army and worked at a factory.