Kirill Vladimirovich Uspensky (1915 - 12/28/1984) - writer, linguist, dissident. Aliases: K. Koscinsky; Cyril of Koscinsky.
| Kirill Vladimirovich Uspensky | |
|---|---|
 Political Prisoner, Mordovia, 1961 | |
| Date of Birth | 1915 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | December 28, 1984 |
| A place of death | Boston |
| Citizenship |  the USSR  USA |
| Occupation | writer , linguist , dissident , human rights activist |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Artworks
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born in Petrograd in 1915. After completing seven classes, he worked as a seller in a store, a time-attendant, a loader in a port, and a worker.
In 1934 he was admitted to the Leningrad Infantry School named after Kirov , at the same time he studied at the evening department of Leningrad University . At the end of the military school he served as platoon commander in the south of Ukraine .
He was a member of the Great Patriotic War , in 1942 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy .
He began to write and publish in 1933, but became a professional writer only in 1947, after being demobilized from the army. He was published in the journal Zvezda (1947-1953, 1970).
Since 1953 - Member of the Union of Soviet Writers . He published five books in the USSR.
In 1960, he was arrested and convicted on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda for 5 years in prison, he was serving a term in a penal colony in Mordovia .
In conclusion, he collected camp slang. [1] He was prematurely released in 1964, after which he became a member of the human rights movement .
In 1978 he emigrated to the United States , died in Greater Boston . Rehabilitated in 1995.
Artwork
- Koscinsky K.V. If We Are Alive. - M .: Military Publishing, 1957. - 168 p. - (Library of military adventures)
- Koscinsky K. Profanity and Dictionaries // Russian Linguistics , 1980, No. 4, 363–396.
- Koscinsky, Cyril. In the shadow of the Big House: Memories. - Tenafly, 1987
Notes
- ↑ Solokhin N.D. Living soul: folklore and poets of the Gulag