Vladimir Uflyand
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Vladimir Uflyand was a Russia
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n poet, famous for such poems as It has For Ages Been Observed; Now, At Last, Even Nikifor's A Suitor; The Peasant; and The Working Week Comes To An End.

Vladimir Uflyand was born in Leningrad
Leningrad
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 (now known as St. Petersburg). He studied history at Leningrad State University, and later worked as a labourer and as a stoker. His poems circulated in Samizdat
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, and he also published his poems for children in Soviet periodicals. His poetry for adults was first published in a book form in the USA in 1978, titled Texts 56-77. In 1993, his collection, Stikhotvornye texty(Poems and Texts), was published in Saint Petersburg. Two more poetry books followed in 1995 and in 1997. In 2000, a book of his essays appeared in St. Petersburg.

External links

  • Obituary in Lenta.ru
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  • Uflyand poetry
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