Yuri Leonidowitsch Kobrin
Yuri Leonidowitsch Kobrin ( Russian Юрий Леонидович Кобрин ; born May 21, 1943 in Chernogorsk ) is a Russian poet and translator of Lithuanian poems into Russian .
Life
Kobrin, the son of an officer in the Red Army , worked at the Sakhalin Elektro thermal power station from 1959 . He also graduated from the Young Workers School in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk . He took part in literature courses in Moscow . His first publications appeared in 1961. In 1962 he became a member of the CPSU . In 1968 the poet Arseni Tarkovsky recommended that he join the Union of Writers of the USSR .
Kobrin worked as a locksmith in Kaunas and Vilnius and as a journalist for newspapers of the Lithuanian SSR . In addition, he studied Russian language and literature at the Lithuanian Pedagogical Institute in Vilnius, graduating in 1974. From 1973 he was responsible for the State Committee for Publications KomIsDat of the Lithuanian SSR for several years . He headed the prose and poetry department of the editorial staff of Literary Lithuania .
Kobrin published poems in various magazines, especially in Literary Lithuania , Nowy Mir and Friendship of the Peoples . He translated poems into Russian, in particular by the Lithuanian poet Judita Vaičiūnaitė , Justinas Marcinkevičius , Juozas Macevičius , Eduardas Mieželaitis and Ramutė Skučaitė . Kobrin's poems were translated into Lithuanian by Albinas Bernotas , Alfonsas Bukontas , Antanas Drilinga , Sigitas Geda , Juozas Macevičius, Ramutė Skučaitė and Vladas Šimkus .
With his book Hannibal's Gene , Kobrin encouraged the Lithuanian sculptor Vytautas Nalivaika to create a memorial for the Moor Hannibal of Tsar Peter I and Hannibal's great-grandson Alexander Pushkin.The monument was erected in 2010 in the courtyard of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeva in Vilnius , in which Hannibal was baptized in 1705 with Tsar Peter I as godfather.
Kobrin is Vice President of the International Federation of Russian-speaking Writers (IFRW) ( London , Budapest ) and a member of the European Academy of Natural Sciences eV ( Hanover ).
Honors
- Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2005)
- Knight of the Order of Friendship (2008)
- Knight's Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
- Pushkin Medal (2016)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Кобрин Юрий Леонидович (accessed December 22, 2016).
- ↑ ЮРИЙ КОБРИН (accessed December 22, 2016).
- ↑ Юрий Кобрин, “Гены Ганнибала” М .: “Вест-Консалтинг”, 2013 (accessed on December 22, 2016).
- ^ Monument to A. Pushkin and A. Hannibal (accessed December 22, 2016).
- ↑ Наталия Зверко: В Вильнюсе открыт памятник Пушкину и Ганнибалу (accessed December 22, 2016).
- ^ Monument to A. Pushkin and A. Hannibal (accessed December 22, 2016).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kobrin, Yuri Leonidowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кобрин, Юрий Леонидович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernogorsk |