Leonid Pervomayskiy
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17 May 1908
Leonid Solomonovych Pervomayskyi | |
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Леонід Соломонович Первомайський | |
 Leonid Pervomayskyi with his wife Yevdokia (1927) | |
| Born | Illya Shlyomovych Hurevych 17 May 1908 |
| Died | 9 December 1973 (aged 65) |
| Burial place | Baikove Cemetery |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Awards | Stalin Prize (1946) |
Leonid Solomonovych Pervomayskyi (Ukrainian: Леонід Соломонович Первомайський, birth name: Illya Shlyomovych Hurevych; 17 May 1908 – 9 December 1973), was a Jewish-Ukrainian poet, a winner of the 1946 Stalin Prize for literature and a member of the Communist Party since 1954.
Pervomayskyi was born in Konstantinograd (now Berestyn, Kharkiv region of Ukraine) to the family of a bookbinder. He worked in a factory, then at a library and a newspaper.
He began publishing in 1924 as a novelist, and in 1929 as a poet. During 1941-1945, he was a military reporter of the Pravda newspaper.[1] After the World War II, he published a novel in verse called "Brother's Youth" (Молодість брата, 1947) and numerous collections of poetry. He was engaged in the translation of Heinrich Heine, Sándor Petőfi, Julius Fučík.[1]
He had been criticized by the Communist Party for the so-called "ideological errors".
Pervomayskyi died on 9 December 1973. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery.[2]
He was a recipient of a number of military and civil decorations.
