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Igor Guberman

Igor Guberman is a Russian-language poet and writer, born in Kharkiv, who has lived in Israel since 1988 and is known for his short satirical quatrains called gariki.

born 1936Satirical quatrains called garikiSoviet dissident poetryThe book Walks Around the Barracks

Born: 7 July 1936, Kharkiv
Occupation: poet, dissident, writer
Education: Russian University of Transport

Igor Guberman was born in 1936 in Kharkiv

Igor Guberman was born in Kharkiv on July 7, 1936. His family moved to Moscow the same year. His older brother, David Guberman, is a geologist.

After high school he studied at a transport university in Moscow. He graduated in 1958 with a degree in electrical engineering and worked in that field for several years while writing in his spare time.

He first wrote popular science books and later became active as a dissident poet. He published underground work under pen names such as I. Mironov and Abram Khayyam. In 1979 he was arrested and sentenced to 5 years, on charges the sources call fabricated, and he kept diaries that became the book Walks Around the Barracks.

He returned from Siberia in 1984 and moved to Israel with his family in 1988, settling in Jerusalem. In Israel he made documentary films and TV series and tours Russian-speaking communities abroad. He has written about 60 books, and his work has been translated into several languages, including Hebrew.