Gennady Muravin
Russian translator and journalist (1931–2021)
Gennady L’vovich Muravin (Геннадий Львович Муравин; 14 May 1931 – 8 November 2021) was a Russian translator, journalist and artist, who lived and worked mostly in Estonia and Finland.
Early life
Muravin was born in Belgorod in the Soviet Union, but he grew up in Kharkiv, Ukraine. His father was a well-known sculptor. During the Second World War, the family was evacuated to Alma-Ata.
Education
Muravin graduated as an artist in 1957 from Moscow's Surikov Academy of Fine Arts, which was part of the Russian Academy of Arts. Later he also graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts, majoring in painting.
Working career
Muravin worked as a journalist in the All-Union Radio, and then in various magazines and children's magazines. While he was working in a magazine named Moskva, the magazine managed to publish the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
During 1976–79 he worked in the Russian Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia, as a director of literature. From the 1960s, he translated more than 150 titles of Estonian literature into Russian language.
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