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Valentin Kataev

Died in 1986

Valentin Kataev (1897-1986), born in Odessa on 28 January 1897, the son of a teacher, enlisted as a volunteer in the artillery in 1915, then was mobilised into the Red Army in 1919, during the civil war. Settled in Moscow in 1922, he wrote from the following year for the railwaymen's newspaper Gudok. Brother of the writer Evgeny Petrov, he edited from 1955 the review Yunost, open to young authors. He died in Moscow on 12 April 1986.

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