they say that men don't cry, but it's not true. In interviews, Valerius explained that he didn't like solitude: "It's like the howling of the Siberian wolf. In the solitude of silence he started to compose drawings on snow and ice - different every year - to feel alive and "not to bore people".
As he himself said in interviews, he was in a coma for 10 days: as soon as he woke up, he asked to turn on the radio, but without hearing any sound.
Over 20 years ago, due to meningitis followed by a heart attack, he lost his hearing. Uncle Valerius died in 2020, killed by the coronavirus at the age of 73, after working as a technician in a factory and a trader. Groups of tourists from various cities began to visit Markovo, and on New Year's Eve greeting cards from all over Russia arrived for Uncle Valerius. Then the media began to write about the exploits of Uncle Valerius, who quickly became a celebrity throughout the country for this unique form of art capable of making kind and welcoming even the most hostile landscape of winter frosts. The International Space Station photographed its own New Year's card drawn on the Khomutin River in 2017. With the help of spades, pickaxes and other tools, many people of different ages and backgrounds take to the snowy landscapes to imitate ice art in the period heralding the New Year and Christmas holidays (Christmas in Russia is celebrated after New Year's Day, on January 7).įor more than 10 years after his retirement, Uncle Valerius devoted himself in solitude to compose greetings for his fellow citizens of Priamurje, drawing festive writings and images on the frozen surface of the great river that separates Russia from China and Mongolia, and on many other snowy spaces. Known as "Uncle Valerius" of the village of Markovo, in the Priamurje region (eastern Manchuria) on the Russian side of the Amur River, he traced drawings and written greetings on the ice and snowy expanses. Moscow (AsiaNews) - The Russians of Siberia, and also of other regions, have organized a special "flashmob" to honor the memory of Valerij Melnikov.
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