Leonid Pervomayskiy
Leonid Pervomayskiy (Ukrainian: Первомайський Леонід Соломонович, birth name: Ilya Shlyomovich (Solomonovich) Gurevich) (May 4/17, 1908 – December 9, 1973), was a Jewish-Ukrainian Soviet poet, winner of the Stalin Prize (1946) and member of CPSU 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 the library, and in a newspaper. After the war, he published a novel in verse called Brother's Youth (Молодість брата, 1947) and numerous collections of poetry.
During 1941-1945, the Great Patriotic War, he was military reporter.
In 1946 he was awarded Stalin Prize of second degree for collections of poetry «День народження» ("Birthday") and «Земля» ("The Land"). Later, he had been criticized by the Communist Party for the so-called "ideological errors".
Pervomaysky died on December 9, 1973. He was buried in Kiev at the Baikove Cemetery.[1]
Recipient of a number of military and civil decorations.
References
- ↑ Череватенко, Леонід. «В путь вийшов я, веселий і безстрашний» (Штрихи до портрета Л. Первомайського).
- Сайт письменника at Leonid Pervomajskij.net.
- Тексти Леоніда Первомайського та про нього
- К.: Головна редакція Української Радянської Енциклопедії (1981); Київ: За редакцією А. В. Кудрицкого; 736 с., іл.