Yuri Kublanovsky

He is known for his dissident past in the former Soviet Union as a member of the post-Stalinist informal literary union, SMOG.

• Name — Yury Kublanovsky • Native Name — Юрий Кублановский • Born — 30 April 1947 • Birthplace — Scherbakov, Soviet Union • Occupation — Poet, essayist, critic • Known for — Co-chairman of the Union of Russian Writers

Yuri Kublanovsky was born in 1947 into a family of an actor, his father Mikhail Naumovich Kublanovsky (1910-1975), and a teacher of Russian literature. His grandfather, a priest, was shot in 1930. His grandmother kept the spirit of pre-revolutionary Russia in her household. Despite the fact that his parents were communists, he was baptized. He was fond of painting, with ten years of experience in the art studio at one time aspired to be a painter. Poems, by his own admission, he began to write when he was 14 or 15 years old. He started with the avant-garde, considering that resisting or opposing official Soviet literature can only be done in obscure or non-traditional ways. In the early years of the Khrushchev Thaw, he appeared in print, taking the example of Western surrealists and Russian futurists. In 1962 he went to Moscow and showed his poems to Andrey Voznesensky, who approved them. From October 1982 to 1990 he lived as an emigre in Paris and Munich. Joseph Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn praised his poetry. He supports Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Yuri Kublanovsky is recorded with the occupation opinion journalist. Recorded with the occupation literary editor. Recorded as poet, art historian, opinion journalist, literary critic and literary editor. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Yury Mikhaylovich Kublanovsky and Yury Kublanovsky. His recorded language was Russian. He married Natalya Polenova.