Stanislav Yuryevich Kunyaev (russian: Станисла́в Ю́рьевич Куня́ев; born November 27, 1932) is a Russian poet, journalist, translator, and

literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

. Since 1989, he has served as editor of literary magazine ''

Nash Sovremennik ''Nash Sovremennik'' (Наш современник, Our Contemporary) is a Russian literary magazine, founded in 1956, as a successor to the ''Yearly Almanac''. History The predecessor of ''Nash Sovremennik'' was the Maxim Gorky-founded Almanac ...

''.

Biography

Kunyaev was born on November 27, 1932 in

Kaluga Kaluga ( rus, Калу́га, p=kɐˈɫuɡə), a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast in Russia, stands on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Population: Kaluga's most famous resident, the space travel pioneer Konstantin Tsiol ...

in the Russian SFSR. During the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...

, his family was evacuated to the village in Kostroma Oblast, where Kunyaev completed his first four grades of primary school. Following the war, the family returned to Kaluga. From 1952 to 1957, he studied at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, and was a member of national teams for university athletics. While at university, Kunyaev started writing poetry, and his first collection of poems ''Earth Explorers'' was published in 1960. Between 1957 and 1960, he worked for the newspaper ''Zavety Lenina'' ( Tayshet,

Irkutsk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizh ...

), before serving as head of the poetry department of literary magazine '' Znamya'' from 1960 to 1963. Kunyaev became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1961. In 1967, having considered that he was in a creative crisis, he left for five years to work in geological parties in the Pamirs, Tien Shan, and the Hissar Range. From 1976 to 1980, Kunyaev was Secretary of the Moscow Writers' Organization. He was a member of the secretariat of the board of the Writers' Union of Russia. On August 19, 1991, he supported the State Committee on the State of Emergency's

August Coup August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. Its zodiac sign is Leo and was originally named ''Sextilis'' in Latin because it was the 6th month in ...

. With his son Sergei, Kunyaev published a book about the life and work of

Sergei Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin ( rus, Сергей Александрович Есенин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn; ( 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one o ...

in the series '. Kunyaev has written around 20 books including ''Eternal Companion'', ''Scroll'', ''Manuscript'', ''Deep Day'', and ''Favorites'', and has translated poetry from Ukrainian, Georgian, Abkhazian, Kirghiz, Buryat, and Lithuanian. Between 1992 and 1993, he was a member of the Political Council of the National Salvation Front. Kunyaev was awarded the Order of Friendship in 2014 for his services to the development of national culture and art. Stanislav Kunyaev supports the point of view of

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

deniersЖрецы и жертвы холокоста. Кровавые язвы мировой истории
/ref> on the total number of dead Jews as repeatedly overestimated by the historiography of the Holocaust.
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References

External links

Official site

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