Yaroslav Smelyakov

Yaroslav Smelyakov
Born	(1913-01-08)8 January 1913 Lutsk, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	27 November 1972(1972-11-27) (aged 59) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation	poet, critic, translator
Nationality	Russian
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Yaroslav Vasilevich Smelyakov (Russian: Яросла́в Васи́льевич Смеляко́в; December 26,1913 to November 27,1972) was a Russian Soviet poet, critic, translator. In 1967, he was awarded the USSR State Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the Soviet Union.

Biography

Yaroslav Smelyakov was born on December 26, 1912 in Lutsk (now Ukraine). The son of a railroad worker, he spent his childhood in the village, where he graduated from elementary school. He then studied at the Moscow seven year school.

He graduated from the printing factory school in 1931. He then worked in a print shop. At the urging of a friend, journalist Vsevolod Jordansky, Smelyakov brought his poems to the editor of a youth magazine; however, by mistake, he entered the building of the Oktyabr, where he was received by the poet Mikhail Svetlov, whom he adored for a long time. Svetlov allowed Smelyakov's poems to be published.

In 1934-1937, he was the victim of the purges conducted by the NKVD

Smelyakov took part in the Great Patriotic War. From June to November 1941, he was ordinary in the North and the Karelian Front. Once in the environment, it was in Finnish captivity until 1944. Returning from captivity, Smelyakov again came to the Gulag.

Thanks to Konstantin Simonov, who put in a good word for Smelyakov, he was able to return to writing the book "Kremlin spruces" in 1948.

In 1951, after double denunciation by two poets, was arrested again and sent to the Polar Inta. Smelyakov lived there until 1955 when he was allowed to return home under an amnesty but not yet rehabilitated. He was rehabilitated later in 1956.

Since 1967, Smelyakov was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.

Creativity

Early on, Smelyakov began to write poetry. He also wrote propaganda team for review. He made his debut in print in 1931.

Author journalistic and critical articles; I translate from Ukrainian, Belarusian and other languages.

Since turning to the poems in the early 1930s, Smelyakov worked as a ditch-digger, news dealer, lumberjack and coal miner. The first verse appeared as he worked at a printing plant in Moscow in 1931. He developed the tone in his own poetry.

He was one of the first victories of Stalin's purges in 1934, but he was released three years later. Mr. Smelyakov served in the Red Army after World War II and was imprisoned by the Finns.

He was the largest pub under the de-Stalinization procedure launched by Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1956.

One of the events of 1961 in other ways very positive for him and carefully disguised by biographers of this individual, in our view, would help to understand better the intentions of Smelyakov, when he wrote his poem “Boys”

External links

• Ярослав Смеляков. Стихотворения