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Gender Male
Birthday 1894-10-18
Deathday 1943-12-20 (49 years old)
Place of Birth Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]
Also Known As Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов, Юрий Тынянов, Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov, Yuri Tynyanov
Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (1894–1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school. In 1928 he wrote, together with linguist Roman Jakobson, an influential work titled 'Theses on Language', as well as works of historical fiction, such as 'Lieutenant Kijé' and one of the central texts of Russian formalist literary production, 'The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar'.
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