Виктор Конецкий Viktor Viktorovich Konetsky was born in the family of an investigator. His childhood and teenage years were associated with the Admiralty Canal in the historical part of St. Petersburg. In the summer of 1941, he was with his mother and brother in Ukraine, where he met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. In August, the Konetskys were able to reach Leningrad, and then a circle of encirclement closed around the city. They spent the most difficult winter of 1941-1942 in besieged Leningrad. In March 1942, the Konetskys were evacuated across the ice of Lake Ladoga to the Big Land and further to Tashkent, where they remained until the fall of 1944. In 1945, Viktor Konetsky entered the Leningrad Naval Preparatory School, and in 1948 he entered the navigational department of the First Baltic Naval School, which he graduated in 1952. From 1953 to 1955 he served on the ships of the 441st Separate Division of the Emergency Rescue Service of the Northern Fleet. Subsequently, some of his observations formed the basis of the short story "The Way to the Pier" and the film of the same name. In March 1955, Viktor Konetsky was demobilized and already in May, as the captain of the MRS-823, he took part in ferrying ships along the Northern Sea Route from Petrozavodsk to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. This was the first ever crossing of a caravan of small vessels in the Arctic. In the same year, Viktor Konetsky joined the Literary Association at the Leningrad branch of the USSR Writers' Union. The first story - "In the Sea" - was published in 1956, in the almanac "Young Leningrad", and in May 1957, the first collection of stories - "Draft" was published. In the early 60s, he was invited as a screenwriter to work in cinematography: in the creative co-authorship were created scripts for such films as "Striped Flight", "The Way to the Dock", "Thirty Three". Since May 1964 Viktor Konetsky combines work in the navy and literary activity. He went from the fourth mate to the sea captain.