Yuri Yanovsky

Yuri Yanovsky was born on 27 August 1902 in Maierove, now Nechaivka, in the Kirovohrad region, and grew up in Yelysavethrad. He entered the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1922 and left it after two years. He first wrote verse in Russian, then in Ukrainian, before turning to prose. In the mid-twenties he was artistic editor at the Odesa film studio. Dismissed in 1946 from the editorship of the journal Vitchyzna, he received the Stalin Prize in 1949 and died in Kyiv on 25 February 1954.

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• NovelThe HorsemenВершникиYuri Yanovsky · 1935LiteraturePublic domain