DANIEL, YULI MARKOVICH (ARZHAK, NIKOLAI)

(1925-88)

Russian poet and writer. He grew up in an environment of revolutionary ideas. In the 1950s he began to develop as a poet and also trans-lated poetry from Ukrainian, Armenian, the Balkan languages and Yiddish. In 1965 he was arrested for publishing seditious works and sentenced to five years in prison.