Boris Chichibabin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet writer
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Place of Birth: Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine
About Boris Chichibabin
- Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin (Russian: ????´? ??????´???? ??????´???, Ukrainian: ????´? ??????´????? ??????´???; 9 January 1923, Kremenchuk – 15 December 1994, Kharkiv; born Polushin, Russian: ????´???) was a Soviet poet and a laureat of the USSR State Prize (1990), who is typically regarded as one of the Sixtiers. He lived in Kharkiv, and in the course of three decades became one of the most famous and best-loved members of the artistic intelligentsia of the city, i.e., from the 1950s to 1980s.
- From the end of the 1950s, his poetry was widely distributed throughout the Soviet Union as samizdat.
- Official recognition came only at the end of his life in the time of perestroika.
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