Yury Tynyanov
Known For: Writing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 18, 1894
Day of Death: December 20, 1943 (49 years old)
Place of Birth: Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]
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'.
