Oleg Haslavsky

Oleg Haslavsky was born in 1948 in Taganrog

Oleg Haslavsky was born in Taganrog, Soviet Union, on 8 July 1948. He was Jewish on his father's side and lived with his parents in Lviv as a young child. At school he studied painting at the Taganrog Art Studio.

In 1966 he began studying French and German at the Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute. He was expelled, later reinstated and transferred to the Kolomna Pedagogical Institute. He graduated there in 1972 and also gained the right to practice clinical psychology.

From 1974 to 1986 he worked as a clinical psychologist at a psychiatric clinic in Taganrog. He later led projects at a research center, lived in Bulgaria from 1990 to 1992, and lived and worked in Israel from 1999 to 2003, in Haifa and Jerusalem. From 2005 to 2020 he worked on photography, digital graphics and painting during long trips in Europe.

He translated poetry from French, Polish and Ukrainian, as well as Cyrano de Bergerac. In 2002 he translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Russian. His poetry first appeared in a journal in 2008, and he wrote three books with his daughter on intelligence and creativity.

He died in Taganrog on 19 December 2021. Four of his books were published in London in 2022.