Background
Kats Zelman Mendelevich was born on December 15, 1911 in Tupichev village (now Gorodnyansky district of Chernihiv region) Ukraine in a family of a handicraftsman.
Kats Zelman Mendelevich was born on December 15, 1911 in Tupichev village (now Gorodnyansky district of Chernihiv region) Ukraine in a family of a handicraftsman.
Zelman was a student of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, Russian Federation from 1938 to 1941.
Zelman was a member of the Great Patriotic War. From the autumn of 1941 to spring of 1942, Zelman worked as a journalist of the 62nd Army, he often visited Voronezh and participated in frontline amateur art activities. After the war Zelman lived in Ukraine, in the early 1990s he moved to Israel.
Zelman was one of the authors (with M.A. Talalaevsky) of the book "Front poems" (Voronezh, 1942). He was the author of 30 collections of poems from 1936 to 2003.