Gabriel El-Registan
Gabriel El-Registan actually Gabriel Arkadievich Urekljan ( Russian Габриэль Аркадьевич Уреклян , patronymic according to other sources Аршалуйсович / Arschaluisowitsch * 1899 in Samarkand , Uzbekistan , † July 1945 in Moscow ) was a Soviet / Armenian poet .
Life
He was born into an Armenian banking family. His father fled from the then Ottoman- occupied Armenia to Tbilisi in the 1890s and later went to Samarkand. During the Russian Civil War and the expansion of power by the Soviets in Central Asia, he joined the Bolsheviks . Embarking on a career as a reporter and writer, he adopted the nickname El-Registan, which was taken from a part of his first name and the most famous place in Samarkand, the Registan . He worked in several prominent Central Asian newspapers, including Pravda Vostoka in Tashkent . He gained prominence through his journalistic work and was proposed to work for the Izvestia newspaper in Moscow .
After the invasion of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union, he became a war correspondent . Stalin became aware of him and together with Sergei Michalkow and Alexander Alexandrow he designed the new hymn of the Soviet Union during a competition in 1943 , which replaced the International as the national anthem that had been used until then .
El-Registan was married to Valentina Galanina, an actress in Moscow. He died in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.noev-kovcheg.ru/mag/2006-10/205.html
- ↑ a b c d e f http://www.ng.ru/style/2003-09-26/24_stalin.html
- ↑ a b c http://www.izvestia.ru/retro/article3129392/
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| SURNAME | El-Registan, Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urekljan, Gabriel Arkadyevich; Urekljan, Gabriel Arshaluisovich; Уреклян, Габриэль Аркадьевич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet poet, co-author of the national anthem of the USSR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Samarkand |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1945 |
| Place of death | Moscow |