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Yury Tynyanov

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TMDB ID: 1869231

IMDb ID: nm0879029

Known for: Writing

Born: October 18, 1894

Died: December 20, 1943

Age: 49

Place of birth: Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1926 - 1969

Years active: 44

Average TMDB rating: 5

Wikidata: Q368455

Also known as

Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов • Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov • Yuri Tynyanov • Ю. Тынянов

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Biography

Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (1894–1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school. In 1928 he wrote, together with linguist Roman Jakobson, an influential work titled 'Theses on Language', as well as works of historical fiction, such as 'Lieutenant Kijé' and one of the central texts of Russian formalist literary production, 'The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar'.