Yuli Solomonovich Berzin (1904—1942) - Soviet writer, playwright and prose writer.
| Yuly Solomonovich Berzin | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1904 |
| Place of Birth | Polotsk , Vitebsk Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | July 11, 1942 |
| Citizenship (citizenship) | |
| Occupation | writer, playwright, prose writer |
| Years of creativity | 1926–1938 |
| Language of Works | |
Content
Biography
Born in Polotsk in a Jewish family, he graduated from the Law Faculty of Leningrad University . In the early 20s he served in the Red Army . He was engaged in literary work since 1926, published a number of books. The first of them was published the novel "Ford" (1927), whose main character is an adventurer, in many respects resembling Ostap Bender [1] . He was a member of the literary group "Change", was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR .
On February 10, 1938, he was arrested in Leningrad on the charge that “since 1930, he was an active participant in an anti-Soviet right-Trotskyite organization among the writers of Leningrad” (articles 58-8, 58-10, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR). By a Resolution of the Special Meeting of the NKVD of the USSR dated July 2, 1939, he was sentenced to a prison camp for 8 years. Was sent to SVITL .
On May 16, 1942, the Military Tribunal of the NKVD troops at Dalstroi sentenced him to death on charges that led “anti-Soviet defeat agitation”, and he was executed on June 11, 1942 [2] [3] .
In the first case he was rehabilitated in 1957, in the second - in 1990 [4]
November 22, 2015 in St. Petersburg on the facade of the house 9 on the embankment of the Griboedov Canal was installed the memorial sign " Last Address " by Yuli Solomonovich Berzin [5] .
Bibliography
- Ford 1927
- "100% of love, revelry and speculation", 1928
- "The end of the ninth regiment", 1927
- "Pithecanthus", the story, magazine "Star" , № 6 - 1929
- Optimistic Novel, 1930
- "Conquerors and a trifle", 1930
- "Knockout", 1931
- Return to Ithaca, 1934
- "Elixir of youth" (play), 1935
Notes
- ↑ Milenko V.D. Plutovskaya, the hero of Russian Soviet prose of the 1920s: problems of typology // Interuniversity scientific collection “Questions of Russian Literature”, vol. 18 (75), p. 68 Archived November 3, 2014.
- ↑ Alexander Biryukov "Kolyma stories"
- ↑ Alexander Biryukov "From the history of Magadan counterintelligence"
- ↑ Berzin Yuli Solomonovich. The Book of Memory of the Victims of the Communist Terror
- ↑ St. Petersburg, 9, Griboedov Canal Embankment (Malaya Konyushennaya, 4/2) // Site “Last Address”.
Links
- Writers of Leningrad. Bibliographical reference book 1934-1981 / Avt.-comp. V. Bakhtin, A. Lurie. - L. , 1982. - p. 33. - 375 p.
- Yuly Solomonovich Berzin