Kirill Kovaldzhi
Kirill Vladimirovich Kovaldzhi (; March 14, 1930 – April 10, 2017) was a Russian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. Biography He was born on March 14, 1930, in the Bessarabian village of Tashlyk (then – Romania, now – Odesa Oblast, Ukraine). In 1940 he moved to Akkerman (now - Belgorod-Dnestrovsky), where he graduated from high school (1947) and Teachers' Institute (1949). In 1949 he entered the Moscow's Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, who graduated in 1954, after which he worked as a journalist in Chisinau. In the same place he published the first collection of poems The Trial (1955), was admitted to the Writers' Union (1956), was elected a member of the board and chairman of the Russian section of the Union of Writers of the Moldavian SSR. Then came the poetry collections of The Lyrics (1956), Talk with the Beloved (1959), The Man of My Generation (1961), The Poems (1963), The Test of Love (1975). In 1959 he was sent to work in Moscow as a consultant under the management board of the USSR Joint Venture, then as deputy chairman of the Inocommission of the Writers' Union (1969). Responsible editor of the magazine Works and opinions (1971), head of