Ilya Ilf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ilya Ilf

Soviet writer and journalist

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1897

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 13-Apr-1937

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, writer, mechanic, contributing editor, journalist, satirist, prosaist, science fiction author

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ilya Ilf, pseudonym of Iehiel-Leyb Arnoldovich Faynzilberg (Russian: ???? ??????????? ????????????) (October 15 [O.S.
October 3] 1897 in Odessa – April 13, 1937, Moscow), was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s.
Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov.
Together they published two popular comedy novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931), as well as a satirical book Odnoêta?naâ Amerika (often translated as Little Golden America) that documented their journey through the United States between 1935 and 1936.