Valery Shituev is a member of the Union of Writers of Russia and the Union of Journalists of Russia. Laureate of the literary awards “Golden Pen of Muscovy”, named after. Y. V. Smelyakov, awarded medals: “Golden Yesenin” and gold “For Thoughts and Deeds” named after. S. Yu. Witte, “For Merit” of the Union of Journalists of Russia. His poems are all very different - both in sound, and in mood, and in temperament, but they are piercingly sincere, they contain compassion and faith in the spiritual powers of the Russian people and boundless love to motherland. Such poems touch the heartstrings and can never leave anyone indifferent.