1. Boris Borisovich Ryzhy was a Russian poet and geologist.
10 Facts About Boris Ryzhy
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Some poems by Ryzhy have been translated into English, Italian, German, Dutch and Serbian.
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Boris Ryzhy died by suicide on 7 May 2001, at the age of 26.
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Boris Ryzhy was born in Chelyabinsk, but had lived in Sverdlovsk since 1980.
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At the time of his death, Boris Ryzhy's reputation had burgeoned and he was starting to receive recognition as one of the premier poets of his generation.
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Boris Ryzhy was awarded the Anti-Booker Prize and accepted an invitation to the Rotterdam Poetry Festival.
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Boris Ryzhy took his own life by hanging on 7 May 2001, at the age of 26.
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Boris Ryzhy had at least one prior suicide attempt in 1999.
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Boris Ryzhy's only son, Artem was born on 19 January 1993 and died of a cardiac arrest in September 2020, at the age of 27.
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Boris Ryzhy was from the intelligentsia class, and had an impressive education in geology and nuclear geophysics and published many scientific papers.