Writing · Writer · Book · Novel
Born Oct 18, 1894 · Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]
Active 1926–1943 · Awards: Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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.