Yunost is a Russian language

Russian language

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 literary magazine

Literary magazine

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 created in 1955 in Moscow

Moscow

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 (initially as a USSR Union of Writers

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' organ) by Valentin Kataev

Valentin Kataev

Valentin Petrovich Kataev was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing post-revolutionary social conditions without running afoul of the demands of official Soviet style. Kataev is credited with suggesting the idea for the Twelve Chairs to his...

, its first editor-in-chief, who was fired in 1961 for publishing Vasily Aksyonov

Vasily Aksyonov

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn and Generations of Winter , a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.-Early life:Vasily Aksyonov was...

's Ticket to the Stars. In Yunost, which appealed to the young intellectual readership and contained an impressive poetry section, were premiered some significant, occasionally controversial (from the Soviet censorship's point of view) works of Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

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, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava

Bulat Okudzhava

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, Nikolay Rubtsov

Nikolay Rubtsov

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, Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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, Andrey Voznesensky

Andrey Voznesensky

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, Robert Rozhdestvensky

Robert Rozhdestvensky

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, Boris Vasilyev

Boris Vasilyev

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, Andrei Molchanov, Rimma Kazakova

Rimma Kazakova

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, Mikhail Zadornov

Mikhail Zadornov

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, Fazil Iskander

Fazil Iskander

Fazil Abdulovich Iskander is arguably the most famous Abkhaz writer, renowned in the former Soviet Union for his vivid descriptions of Caucasian life, mostly written in Russian...

, Vasily Aksyonov

Vasily Aksyonov

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn and Generations of Winter , a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.-Early life:Vasily Aksyonov was...

, Anatoly Gladilin

Anatoly Gladilin

Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin is a Russian writer and poet who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and has since lived in Paris....

, Anatoly Kuznetsov

Anatoly Kuznetsov

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, Grigory Gorin, Nikolay Leonov and others. Since 1991 Yunost is an independently published journal.

Editors-in-chief

• Valentin Katayev (1955—1961)
• Boris Polevoy
  Boris Polevoy
  Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy was a notable Soviet writer. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about a Soviet World War II fighter pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresiev ....
  
   (1961—1981)
• Andrey Dementyev
  Andrey Dementyev (poet)
  Andrey Dmitriyevich Dementyev is a Russian and Soviet poet, a laureate of Lenin’s Young Communist League Award , a USSR State Prize , and Bunin Prize ....
  
  (1981—1992)
• Victor Lipatov (1992—2007)
• Valery Dudarev (2007-present)