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Emilian Bucov

Died in 1984

Emilian Bucov was born on 8 August 1909 in Chilia, in Bessarabia, then Russian. After finishing at the Hasdeu lycée in Chișinău in 1930, he studied literature and philosophy in Bucharest, was active in the Communist Youth Union and gave verse to the leftist journals. Settled in Moscow in 1940, he moved to Chișinău in 1944, was president of the Writers' Union from 1945 to 1946 and again from 1955 to 1958, was vice-president of the Council of Ministers from 1947 to 1951 and edited the journal Nistru from 1966 to 1971. Made Hero of Socialist Labour in 1979, he died on 17 October 1984.

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