Nikita Zabolotsky died

On December 12, at the age of 82, Nikita Zabolotsky, the son of the poet Nikolai Zabolotsky, the author of biographical and memoirs about his father, the compiler of several meetings of his works, died.

Nikita Nikolaevich Zabolotsky was born in 1932 in Leningrad, graduated from the Timiryazevsky agricultural Academy (1955) and graduate school, candidate of biological sciences (1959). He worked as a researcher at the Moscow Research Institute and for more than twenty years taught biochemistry at the Central Institute for the improvement of doctors.

Since the mid-1970s, Nikita Zabolotsky printed memories of his father in the journal "Questions of Literature", in 1994 he published the biographical book "Life of N.A. Zabolotsky. " In addition, he compiled a collection of poems, translations, articles and letters of Nikolai Zabolotsky and memories of him “Fire flickering in the vessel” (Moscow, 1995).

Laureate of the award named after Nikolai Zabolotsky City of Urzhum (1998), prizes to them. Nikolai Zabolotsky “Do not let your soul be lazy” (2000).