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Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was a prominent children’s author, poet, journalist, literary critic, and translator.
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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov
Varlam Shalamov was a Soviet writer and poet, best known for his autobiographical works such as The Kolyma Stories.
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Alexander Borisovich Chakovsky
Alexander Borisovich Chakovsky was a Soviet writer, critic, playwright, journalist, and war correspondent. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazines the Foreign Literature (1955-1963) and the Literaturnaya Gazeta (1962-1988).
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Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky
Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky 1910-1971 Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky was a Russian Soviet writer, poet, novelist, and journalist. He also served as a war correspondent and held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1944. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Novy Mir from 1950 to 1954 and again from 1958 to 1970. He was born in…
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Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov
Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright who became one of the most prominent representatives of the “Komsomol poets” and an idol of a generation.
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Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky
Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet poet, songwriter, and translator, known for his work during the “Sixties” era and enjoyed by multiple generations of Soviet people.
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Yuri Markovich Nagibin
Yuri Nagibin was a Soviet and Russian writer, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He was born on April 3rd, 1920, in Moscow.
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Ivan Antonovich Efremov
Ivan Antonovich Efremov was a Soviet science fiction author, paleontologist, and popularizer of science.
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Sergey Alexandrovich Yesenin
Sergey Yesenin was a prominent Russian poet and a representative of Imagism in literature.
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Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev was a Russian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator. He was a representative of the literature of the “Silver Age” and the founder of the Russian acmeist movement.