Lev Ozerov
Ukrainian poet (1914-1996) · Ukraine · On the map · Writers · Died at 81
Lev Ozerov was a Russian-Jewish poet, translator and essayist born in Kiev. Ozerov was the professor of Literary Translation at the Literary Institute until his death. He was one of the first Jewish authors who wrote poems about Babi Yar along with Liudmila Titova and Leonid Pervomayskiy.
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He visited that place of martyrology of Ukrainian Jews in Kiev immediately after the liberation. His famous epic "Babi Yar" first appeared in the Октябрь (October) magazine March-April 1946 issue. Ozerov served as poetry editor of October (Октябрь) magazine in 1946-1948, one of the more important literary publications at the time.
