Olzhas Suleimenov

Olzhas Suleimenov was born on 18 May 1936 in Alma-Ata, the son of an officer of a Kazakh cavalry regiment that was repressed in 1937. A geological engineer who graduated in 1959, he took the poetic translation courses of the Gorky Institute in Moscow. In April 1961, at the Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, he wrote in a single night a poem about the first human spaceflight, published as a volume in May. In 1989 he founded the Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement, which helped bring about the closure of the nuclear test site in 1991, and was later ambassador to Rome and to UNESCO.

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• EssayAz i YaOlzhas Suleimenov · 1975Literature