Leonid Pervomayskiy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Leonid Pervomayskiy

Ukrainian poet

Date of Birth: 04-May-1908

Place of Birth: Krasnohrad, Ukraine

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1973

Profession: writer, poet, translator, literary critic

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Leonid Pervomayskiy

  • Leonid Pervomayskiy (Ukrainian: ?????? ??????????? ?????????????, birth name: Ilya Shlyomovich (Solomonovich) Gurevich) (4/17 May 1908 – 9 December 1973), was a Jewish-Ukrainian Soviet poet, a winner of the 1946 Stalin Prize for literature and a member of the Communist party since 1954. Pervomayskiy was born in Konstantinograd (now Krasnohrad, Kharkiv region of Ukraine) to the family of a bookbinder.
  • He worked in a factory, then at a library and a newspaper.
  • During 1941-1945, he was a military reporter.
  • After the World War II, he published a novel in verse called "Brother's Youth" (????????? ?????, 1947) and numerous collections of poetry. In 1946 he was awarded Stalin Prize of second degree for collections of poetry «???? ??????????» ("The Birthday") and «?????» ("The Land").
  • Later, he had been criticized by the Communist Party for the so-called "ideological errors". Pervomaysky died on 9 December 1973.
  • He was buried in Kiev at the Baikove Cemetery.He was a recipient of a number of military and civil decorations.

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