About Vasily Lytkin
Lived 1895 – 1981 (aged 85). Vasily Lytkin was a Russian poet, children's writer, translator, linguist and finno-Ugrist.
Vasily Ilyich Lytkin (, , Lytkin Illya Vas, also known by the pseudonym Illya Vas) was a Soviet Komi poet, translator, linguist, Finno-Ugrist, Doktor nauk. and member of Finnish Academy of Sciences. He was a laureate of the State Prize of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Lytkin was born in the village of Tentyukovo (Тентюково), near the Komi capital of Ust-Sysolsk (modern-day Syktyvkar; now the village is a microdistrict of Syktyvkar) in December 1895.
Lutkin studied in Helsinki and Budapest, and later published a historical analysis of the Komi language. He was the first Komi to study at St. Petersburg University. He researched the role of Stephen of Perm and published poetry under the pseudonym Illya Vas.
Lytkin published 11 monographs and over 300 scientific articles.
Starting in 1958, he was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers. He translated the works of Pushkin, Tyutchev, Mayakovsky, Demyan Bedny, Chukovsky into the Komi language.
Lytkin died on August 27, 1981, in Moscow.
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Soviet linguist, poet and translator (1895-1981)
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Vasily Lytkin was born on 15 December 1895 in Tentyukov.
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Vasily Lytkin died on 27 August 1981 in Moscow.
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Vasily Lytkin was a poet, children's writer, translator, linguist and finno-Ugrist.
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Vasily Lytkin was Russian.
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