10 Facts About Yury Kazakov

Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov was a Russian author of short stories, often compared to Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin.

Yury Kazakov attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, graduating in 1958.

Reportedly, Yuri Yury Kazakov was born to a worker's family in Moscow and grew up in the old Arbat area, which has today been turned into a tourist attraction but in the mid-1900s was the focal point of Russian culture.

Yury Kazakov emerged as a writer only thanks to the short period in recent Russian history known as the Thaw, but in the mid-1960s, this period gave way to stagnation in culture and public life.

In defiance of the situation in the country, Yury Kazakov produced some of his best stories in the 1970s, which dealt with the merging of two souls, the soul of the newborn and the soul of the poet at the end of his life.

Yury Kazakov died on November 29,1982, and was buried in Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.

Yury Kazakov lived in Moscow but spent a good deal of time traveling along the shores of the White Sea, among the provincial towns along the Oka, and in Central Russian Upland and the wooded areas around them.

Yury Kazakov spent periods of time with the fishermen of the Russian North.

Yury Kazakov's work has an intrinsic, intangible quality which makes it unmistakably his.

Yury Kazakov's characters are charged with emotion and tend to have a keen sense of an aspect of nature.