Pavel Isaakovich Kaletsky

Background

Pavel Kaletsky was born on January,1906 in Mogilev, Mahilyowskaya Voblasts', Belarus in the family of an engineer.

Education

Career

Since 1923 lived in Moscow. Worked in the library of the Communist University named after Ya.M. Sverdlov. Employee of the State Publishing House.

In the spring of 1933 was deported to the city of Voronezh. Teacher at the Voronezh State Pedagogical Institute, read lectures on folklore and the history of Russian literature. Simultaneously, the school teacher, the editor of literary and art and children's books in the publishing house "Commune", "reviewer by sight" in the editorial office of the newspaper "Kommuna". An active participant in the literary and public life of the city. Regularly printed in the magazine "Rise".

In 1934 was accepted as a candidate for membership in the Writers' Union of the USSR. The editor of the almanac "Writers of the TsCHO" (Voronezh, 1934). Kaletsky was preparing a publication of selected poems by Alexei Vasilievich Koltsov. Communicated in Voronezh with Osip Emilevich Mandelstam and Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelshtam, Sergei Borisovich Rudakov, Alexander Ivanovich Stephen and others.

In July 1935, Kaletsky went to Leningrad, where he worked in the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, from February 1936 a consultant bibliographer in the scenario section of Lenfilm.

Was published in the magazines "Literary critic", "Literary contemporary", the collection "Soviet folklore". Before the Great Patriotic War, an associate professor of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen, a researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), where studied folklore.

Connections

Friend:

Osip Mandelstam