Leonid Georgyevich Gubanov (russian: Леони́д Гео́ргиевич Губа́нов; 20 July 1946 – 8 September 1983Леонид Губанов. Биография
/ref>) was a Soviet poet, creator of the unofficial literary circle

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Biography

He began writing poetry in childhood. In 1962 he entered the literary studio at the district library. Several of his poems were published in the newspaper

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. Then he became interested in

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and created a neo-futuristic samizdat magazine.Биографический указатель
/ref> Then he entered the literary studio of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers. Famous poets paid attention to him. In 1964, Yevgeny Yevtushenko helped to print an excerpt from a poem by Leonid Gubanov in the magazine

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. This publication was the last publication of Leonid Gubanov in the Soviet press.Биографический указатель
/ref> In early 1965, together with Vladimir Aleinikov, Vladimir Batshev, Yuri Kublanovsky and others, he participated in the creation of the independent literary and artistic association SMOG. On 5 December 1965, he took part in a glasnost meeting on Pushkin Square in Moscow. After some time, he was forcibly incarcerated in a special Soviet "psychiatric hospital". During the era of stagnation, Leonid Gubanov did not take part in official literary life. He earned his living by unskilled labor (he was a working geophysical expedition, photo lab assistant, fireman, graphic designer, janitor, loader). He died on 8 September 1983 at the age of thirty-seven, and was buried in Moscow at the

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. In 1994, the first compilation of Leonid Gubanov, The Angel in the Snow, was published by the publishing house IMA-PRESS.

Personal life

He was married to the poet (1943–2018).

Books

* The Angel in the Snow (1994) * I am Exiled to the Muse on Galleys... (2001)Я сослан к Музе на галеры…
/ref> * Gray Horse (2006) * And Invited Words to Feast... (2012)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gubanov, Leonid 1946 births 1983 deaths Soviet male poets 20th-century Russian poets Russian-language poets Writers from Moscow Soviet dissidents