Education
In 1962 he finished the philology department of the State University of the Moscow Region.
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Oleg Chukhontsev
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He worked for poetry section of journals Yunost and Novy Mir. After the publication of his poem "A story about Kurbsky" in the Yunost journal in 1968, he was heavily attacked in press, and for 8 years his original works were officially considered "unpublishable". During these years Oleg Chukhontsev worked as a translator from the European languages, and local languages of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. His first book ("From Three Notebooks") was published in 1976, and the second one ("The Dormer Window") - in 1985, both still censured.
His first book not affected by censorship-implied editing was "By Wind and by Ashes", published in 1989.
In 2003 he published a book of new poems "Fifia". The name "Chukhontsev" comes from an old Russian word "chukhonets", which means "a Finn", or "a person of Finnish origin".
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Russia Soviet Union
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Pushkin Prize Pushkin Prize
The Pushkin Prize was established in 1881 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the greatest Russian poets Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837).The Pushkin Prize was established in 1881 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the greatest Russian poets Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837).