Background
Oleinikov, Nikolai was born in 1898 in the village Kamenskaia-onDon.
Oleinikov, Nikolai was born in 1898 in the village Kamenskaia-onDon.
Worked as a journalist in the provinces. Moved to Leningrad, 1925. Member of the OBERIU group in the 1920s.
Became known as an author of books for children. Edited magazines for children. Together with other Leningrad childrens’ writers, arrested, 1937, after Kirov’s murder.
His unpublished poetry circulated in samizdat posthumously in the 1950-1960s Some of it was published in the West.