Metadata: Belenky Efim Isaakovich
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archive of the Omsk Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Казенное учреждение "Исторический архив Омской области"
- Postal address:
- 644033, Omsk, Krasny Put', 153/4
- Phone number:
- +7 (3812) 25 14 17
- Email:
- gugaoo@mail.ru
- Reference number:
- F. P- 3166
- Title:
- Belenky Efim Isaakovich
- Title (official language):
- Беленький Ефим Исаакович
- Creator/accumulator:
- Efim Isaakovich Belenky
- Date(s):
- 1933/1984
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 80 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This personal collection includes biographical materials, private photos (group and individual), creative papers (articles, notes) and correspondence with journalists, writers, publishers and friends. Jewish-related material in the collection comprises an autobiography and correspondence with Jewish literary figures including I. Rapoport from Irkutsk and S. Tsetkin.
- Archival history:
- The documents were donated to the archive in October 1998 by Belenky’s daughter Tamara Belenkaya.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Efim Isaakovich Belenky was born to a working family on 25 May 1912 in the city of Krichev in Mogilev province and brought up in an orphanage in Smolensk. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Smolensk Pedagogical Institute in 1933, completed postgraduate studies (without defending a thesis) and stayed at the department of Russian literature as an associate professor. Belenky was drafted into the Red Army in 1939, was seriously wounded in 1941 and served in the labour army in 1942. From October 1945 he worked at the Omsk State Pedagogical Institute. In 1955 he defended his thesis "Topics in the village of A.M. Gorky's works." He retired in August 1973 and died on 3 July 1984 in Pitsunda, Georgia. He is buried in Omsk at the New Jewish Cemetery.
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Memoirs
- Photographs
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is made up of a single series.
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions.
- Finding aids:
- There is an inventory, including historical background.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Omsk State University
