Yaroslav Smelyakov

Yaroslav Vasilevich Smelyakov (Russian: Яросла́в Васи́льевич Смеляко́в; 1913-1972) was a Russian Soviet poet, critic, translator. Winner of the USSR State Prize (1967).

Yaroslav Smelyakov born December 26, 1912 (8 January 1913), in Lutsk (now Ukraine) in the family of a railroad worker. He spent his childhood in the village, where he graduated from elementary school. He then studied at the Moscow school-seven-year period.

He graduated from the printing factory school (1931). He worked in the print shop. At the urging of a friend, journalist Vsevolod Jordansky, brought his poems to the editor of youth magazine. But mistook the door and hit the Oktyabr magazine, where he was received by his idol, the poet Mikhail Svetlov, who gave the green light to the young poet. Ironically, one of the first days in the printing house he entrusted to recruit their own same verses.

In 1934-1937 he was the victim of the purges.

Member of 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, put in a good word for Smelyakov, he was able to return to writing book "Kremlin ate" in 1948.

In 1951 he denounced two poets arrested again and sent to the Polar Inta. Smelyakov stayed until 1955 when he returned home under an amnesty has not yet rehabilitated.

Member of the Board of the USSR Writers Union since 1967.

Early 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.