Igor Nikolaevich Morozov Biography

Russian writers - the front! Born in the military family: father-Nikolai Petrovich Morozov, during the war, the commander of the Rifle Division, the holder of 48 orders and medals, including the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky at the number took part in the landing of Dmitry Medvedev and ensuring the exit to the city of the legendary intelligence officer Nikolai Kuznetsov. Honorary citizen of two cities in the west of Ukraine, which he liberated.

After the war, he served in foreign intelligence, Colonel GRU, mother - Zoya Mikhailovna Morozova, an officer of Soviet foreign intelligence. In one of his interviews, Igor Morozov said that only after the death of his mother he learned from his father, whom she actually worked for 30 years. In years he studied at the Moscow Higher Technical School named after N. Bauman, where he received a military specialty-“designer-mechanical mechanic of combat caterpillar and wheel vehicles”.

After graduating from the Morozov school, a physically developed candidate for master of sports in boxing and well -known English, was recommended on the initiative of his father for working in the KGB of the USSR. Dzerzhinsky VKSh for listeners with knowledge of foreign languages. He was one of the operational authorized authorities involved in the investigation of a terrorist act in the Moscow Metro in the year, received gratitude from the then chairman of the KGB Yuri Andropov.

In the year, he flew twice in Afghanistan with special survey to ensure the security of the withdrawal of Soviet troops. For completing the assignment, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. From for a year - one of the members of the team of “Afghan” songs “Shuravi” later - “Special Purpose Group”. Being one of the most famous authors and performers of the “Afghan” song, Igor Morozov himself became the prototype of the hero of the song “Captain from Fayzabad” of another famous Afghan warrior, the author and performer Viktor Werstakov.

In the year, he was admitted to the Union of Writers of Russia, published a collection of poems and songs “Remember us, Russia ...”.

Nikolai Starodymov: “... amazing fact: the whole country heard and knows the songs of this author and the performer, but not everyone will react to him in the name. This happens in a creative, especially song environment - when the work lives an independent life, as if breaking away from his creator ... Igor Morozov wrote a lot of songs - as he himself admitted, he himself could not remember everyone.

These songs had incredible popularity during the Afghan and Chechen wars; They were performed at all at all without exception! And how good the “lapisit” “Cattle” his Afghan is good! There is no doubt that Igor’s songs will forever remain in the memory of our people. And the veterans are even more so! ..