Leonid Solomonovych Pervomayskyi (Ukrainian: Леонід Соломонович Первомайський, birth name: Illya Shlyomovych Hurevych; 17 May 1908 – 9 December 1973), was a Jewish-Ukrainian poet, a winner of the 1946 Stalin Prize for literature and a member of the Communist Party since 1954. Pervomayskyi was born in Konstantinograd (now Berestyn, Kharkiv region of Ukraine) to the family of a bookbinder. He worked in a factory, then at a library and a newspaper. He began publishing in 1924 as a novelist, and in 1929 as a poet. During 1941-1945, he was a military reporter of the Pravda newspaper. After the Worl
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