How to Pronounce Leonid Pervomayskiy
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May 04, 1908 Krasnohrad, Ukraine Died on 09 Dec 1973 (aged 65)
Ukrainian poet
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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.
