The poet Henri Volokhonsky died

In Germany, at the age of 82, the Russian poet, prose writer, translator Henri Volokhonsky died. This was reported by the Israeli edition "Cursor" with reference to the friends of the deceased.

Volokhonsky was born on March 19, 1936 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Leningrad Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute and graduate school of the Institute of Lake Fisheries. He defended his thesis. He worked in various fields of chemistry, ecology, hydrology.

In the 1960s, Volokhonsky began to be published in Samizdat. In the USSR, only one of his poems was published - the “centaur” fable in the journal Aurora in 1972.

Volokhonsky worked a lot together with the poet and bard Alexei Khvostenko. The song “Paradise” was most famous (“Above the blue sky is the city of gold ...)” to the music of Vladimir Vavilov. She was performed by Khvostenko. In the film "Assa", Boris Grebenshchikov sang the song (without specifying the authors of music and text).

At the end of 1973, Volokhonsky emigrated to Israel. In the fall of 1985 he moved to Munich, where until August 1995 he worked as an editor of the Radio Freedom News Department. "Since 2004 he lived in the village of Rexingen near the city of Horb.

Volokhonsky wrote many poetic works, from miniatures to poems, as well as a number of prosaic works, including the novel "Roman of the Polesie". In exile, Volokhonsky was also engaged in literary translation.

Volokhonsky recorded a number of albums and songs along with rock musician Leonid Fedorov, leader of the Auktson group.