Background
Golodnyi, Mikhail was born on December 24, 1903 in Bakhmut (now Artemovsk).
Golodnyi, Mikhail was born on December 24, 1903 in Bakhmut (now Artemovsk).
Member of the literary group Molodaia Gvardiia in the 1920s. Became known in the 1930s as a classic stalinist poet (‘Partisan Zhelezniak’, ‘Pesnia о Shchorse’). During World War II, published a lot of propaganda verse.
His death in Moscow (at the age of 45, according to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia) is suspicious. Probably perished during the post-war wave of new arrests.