Yury Tynyanov

Yury Tynyanov
Native name	Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов
Born	Yury Nasonovich Tynyanov (1894-10-18)October 18, 1894 Rezhitsa, Russian Empire
Died	December 20, 1943(1943-12-20) (aged 49) Moscow, USSR
Resting place	Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
Occupation	Writer, screenwriter, translator, literary critic, scholar
Language	Russian
Alma mater	Petrograd State University
Years active	1921 - 1943
Notable works	Lieutenant Kijé
Spouse	Leah Abelevna Zilber ​ ​ (m. 1916)​
Children	1

Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов, IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ tɨˈnʲænəf]; October 18, 1894 – December 20, 1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter.^[1] He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.

Born in a Jewish community in the Russian Empire in modern-day Latvia, he moved to Saint Petersburg where he completed his education. During the 1920s in the Soviet Union, he published numerous novels, works, and movie scripts, as well as working as a translator. However, his health declined during the 1930s and he died in 1943 from multiple sclerosis.