THE MILITARY NOVEL BY G. SHAKULOV AND A. GILEP "SOLDIERS OF PILLBOX No. 205" AS A MEANS OF PATRIOTIC EDUCATION OF YOUTH

The article examines the military novel by the Vitebsk children's writer, participant of the Great Patriotic War Grigory Shakulov, written based on the stories of Alexander Gilep, a soldier of a machine gun company, leading a marching magazine, "Soldiers of Pillbox No. 205" (1960–1964) as a means of patriotic education of modern youth. The literary text was restored from the manuscripts of G. Shakulov and published by the writer's daughter and grandchildren in separate books (St. Petersburg, 2018; Mn., 2019). The work has a documentary basis, written based on the records of a front-line source. The author of the article, based on the characteristics of the military story as a genre, determines its specifics in the writer's work, identifies the features of Shakulov's artistic style, conducts an ideological-thematic and imaginative-stylistic analysis of the text of the story, designates the moral and educational potential of the work.