Background
Yuliy Taubin was born in the family of a chemist. In 1921 he moved to Mstislavl, where he studied in a seven-year school.
10.08.1933 Yuliy Taubin was sentenced to a two-year exile in Ural. He lived in Tyumen. 29.10.1937 Taubin was sentenced (evidently after having come back to Minsk) to the extreme penalty. He was rehabilitated 29.08.1956.
Education
Yuliy finished Mstislavl teachers’ training vocational school.
In 1931 – 1933 he was a student of the literature department in Minsk teachers' training institute.
Career
The first poems of Yuliy Taubin were published in the “Molodniak Kalininshchiny” magazine in Klimovichi in 1926 (“Molodniak Kalininshchiny” means the young people of Kalininskiy District). In 1930 his first collection of poems “Lights” came out. The motifs of faithfulness and friendship, poet and poetry’s role were dominating in his works of the 1920s. The genre of friendly epistle had
an important role in his works. In 1936 the “Ogoniek” magazine (№22) published Taubin’s poem “Teddy”, which was dedicated
to E. Telman. The critique of that time (especially A. Kuchar) treated Taubin with suspicion. The poet was blamed for the subservient attitude towards the old bourgeois literature; he was criticized for the idealistic aestheticism.
Yuliy Taubin had his own poetic vision of the world, was guided by the examples of A. Pushkin, M. Bogdanovich, etc. During his staying in Siberia, the poet learned English. He also translated from English. The part of his translations are
in “Anthology of new English poetry” (Leningrad, 1937). Taubin translated the poems from the text of the novel by the Irish writer S. O’Faolain “A Nest of Simple Folk”. He also translated the works of H. Heine, V. Mayakovskiy, etc.
Politics
In the 1930s the poet turned to political journalism (“An acquaintance of the four”, “Calendar”)