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Venedikt Yerofeyev

Died in 1990

Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938-1990), born on 24 October 1938 near Kandalaksha, in the Murmansk region, was the son of a station master who was arrested and held for six years. Admitted to the philology faculty of Moscow University, he was expelled for absences from military training, then excluded from several other institutes. From 1958 to 1975 he lived on unskilled jobs, notably as a cable layer. Stricken with throat cancer in 1985, he died in Moscow on 11 May 1990.

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