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Alexander GolembaRussian Soviet poet, translator
Date of Birth: 06.11.1922
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Content:
- Education and Early Life
- - Graduated from the First Moscow Medical Institute in 1946.
- - Joined the Institute of Penicillin.
- Literary Career
- Translation and Other Works
- Personal Life and Legacy
- - Died from complications after surgery for a stomach ulcer.
Education and Early Life
- In 1940, entered the First Kharkiv Medical Institute.- From 1941 to 1943, evacuated to Izhevsk and continued studies at the local medical institute.
- Graduated from the First Moscow Medical Institute in 1946.
Medical Career- Worked as a laboratory doctor at the Kharkiv Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.
- Joined the Institute of Penicillin.
- Became a member of the Institute of Neurology at the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.
- Served in the army as the head of a medical unit from May 1951 to December 1952.
Literary Career
- From 1953, dedicated himself solely to literature.- Joined the Union of Writers of the USSR on March 21, 1957.
- As a student, joined the literary association at the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" under Vadim Lugovsky.
- Collaborated with Lugovsky to translate Voltaire's "Mahomet," José de Espronceda's "The Devil World," and other literary works.
- Adopted the pseudonym "Golemba," meaning "dove" in Polish, after his relative's surname.
Translation and Other Works
- Actively published translations of poetry, prose, and drama from 1948 until his death.
- Contributed to the "Life of Remarkable People" series with a book on Antonio Gramsci (1968).
- Published a representative selection of his own extensive poetic work in 2007.
Personal Life and Legacy
- Lived in the "Soviet Writer" Housing Cooperative on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street from the 1960s to 1970s.
- Married microbiologist Maya Akhmedovna Smirnova-Mutusheva (1924-2009).
