Alexander Nikolaevich Pomorsky (17 August 1891 – 1977) was a

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poet. He was active in

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and

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. He published his first poems in 1908. In that same year he joined the Bolshevik faction of the

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. In August 1915 he intervened in a public debate in

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at which supporters of the

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's participation in the

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were discussing the issue of "the importance of the military-industrial committees and the participation of workers in the country's defense," Pomorsky spoke against the war and received not only a warm response from the audience but also a two year prison sentence. In 1917, he published his first book of poems ''Песни борьбы'' (Songs of the Struggle) followed by ''Цветы восстания'' (Flowers of the Rebellion) in 1918. He wrote for ''

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'' before moving to Tambov where he settled in Kozlov (renamed

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in 1934). Here he edited ''Izvestia'', the newspaper of the Kozlov Soviet. In september 1918 he headed the newly formed Tambov

, a left-wing workers' cultural organisation. He was involved in making sure books were punlsihed nd that the town had a thriving theatrical culture.. Following end of the civil war, Pomorsky went

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where he worked in Political Education for three years then moving to

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to continue his political work. By the 30s he was living in

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. In the 1920s and 1930s, he wrote several wrote poems dedicated to the transformations taking place in the Transcaucasus. The collection ''Стихи и песни'' (Poems and Songs) was published in 1936.

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