Summary Aleshkovsky Yu


Iosif Yefimovich Aleshkovsky, better known as Yuz Aleshkovsky (born September 21, 1929, Krasnoyarsk, RSFSR) is a Russian writer, poet and bard. He emigrated from the USSR in 1979, he lives mainly in the United States.
The winner of the Pushkin Prize (2001).

Joseph Aleshkovsky was born on September 21, 1929 in Krasnoyarsk. Soon the family moved to Moscow, where the boy entered the school. During the Great Patriotic War the family left for evacuation.
In 1947, Aleshkovskiy was summoned to serve in the armed forces. He served in the navy, then for violation of discipline was sentenced to four years in prison. From 1950 to 1953 he served his sentence in the camp. After his release he works as a chauffeur in the virgin lands and at the construction site.
In 1955, Aleshkovsky returned to Moscow and began to earn his living by literary work.
Since 1959, he began writing songs for his poems (according to other sources, he composed songs already in 1953). Aleshkovsky was officially considered the author of children’s books and scripts for cinema and television, and he acted unofficially as the performer of his own songs, of which the most popular song was “Comrade Stalin, you are a great scientist.”
After the publication of the texts of “camp” songs Aleshkovsky in the almanac Metropol, the writer was forced to emigrate – in 1979 he went to Austria, and then moved to the United States, where he still lives.
In 1991, he was one of the creators of the informal association “BaGaJa”, which still included: (A. G. Bitov, BA Akhmadulina and M. M. Zhvanetsky).
In 1995, the US recorded with Andrei Makarevich disc Okurochek.


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Summary Aleshkovsky Yu