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page 1Soviet translators
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet (1889–1966)
Yakub Kolas
Belarusian writer (1882–1956)

Konstantin Simonov
Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent (1915-1979)

Samuil Marshak
Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)

Musa Cälil
Soviet poet
Fyodor Sologub
Russian writer (1863–1927)
Arseny Tarkovsky
Soviet poet and translator (1907–1989)
Maksym Rylsky
ukrainian poet (1895–1964)

Margarita Aliger
Soviet poet, translator, and journalist (1915–1992)
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist (1936–2013)
Nikolay Zabolotsky
Russian poet, children's writer and translator (1903-1958)
Mikhail Isakovsky
Russian poet (1900-1973)
Dmitriy Petrov
Russian translator, interpreter and television presenter
Dmytro Pavlychko
Ukrainian writer, diplomat and dissident
Robert Rozhdestvensky
Russian poet (1932–1994)
Vikenty Veresaev
Russian doctor and writer (1867–1945)
Yuri Rytkheu
Russian Chukchi writer (1930-2008)
Choʻlpon
Abdulhamid Sulaymon oʻgʻli Yunusov (, 1893 – 4 October 1938), most commonly known by his penname Choʻlpon (sometimes spelled Cholpán in English), was an Uzbek poet, playwright, novelist, and literary translator. Choʻlpon was one of Central Asia's most popular poets during the first half of the 20th century. He was also the first person to translate William Shakespeare's plays into the Uzbek language.
Mirdza Ķempe
Latvian poet (1907–1974)
Fedor Samokhin
Russian writer of Kyrgyzstan
Nikolay Nekrasov
Russian writer and esperantist (1900-38)
Źmitrok Biadula
Jewish Belarusian poet, writer, political activist (1886–1941)
Abdulla Qahhor
Uzbek author (1907-1968)
Pavel Antokolsky
Soviet Russian poet and theatre director (1896-1978)
Platon Alekseievich Oiunskii
Sakha Soviet writer, linguist, statesman (1893-1939)
Rasul Rza
Azerbaijani writer (1910–1981)
Anatoly Sofronov
Soviet author, poet and writer (1911-1990)
Eduardas Mieželaitis
Lithuanian politician, poet and author (1919–1997)
Leonid Martynov
Russian poet (1905–1980)
Suleyman Rustam
Azerbaijani Soviet poet (1906-1989)
Gabit Musirepov
Soviet writer (1902–1985)
Kersti Merilaas
Estonian writer (1913–1986)
Nora Gal
Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist (1912–1991)
Valentin Asmus
Russian philosopher
Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova
Ukrainian writer and translator of Esperanto
Hienadz Buraukin
Belarusian poet, diplomat and journalist (1936–2014)
Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Alekseyev
Soviet sinologist (1881-1951)
Janka Bryl
Belarusian writer (1917–2006)
Der Nister
Soviet writer and translator (1884-1950)
Kondrat Krapiva
Belarusian writer (1896–1991)
Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev
Azerbaijani playwright, stage director, politician and public figure (1870–1933)
Andrii Malyshko
Soviet poet, journalist and literary critic (1912–1970)
Mykola Lukash
Ukrainian translator (1919–1988)
Ojārs Vācietis
Latvian writer (1933–1983)
Antanas Venclova
Soviet politician (1906-1971)
Galina Dzhugashvili
Russian translator (1938-2007)
Arkadź Kuliašoŭ
Belarusian poet and translator (1914-1978)
Panas Saksahansky
Ukrainian theatre actor, playwright and translator (1859–1940)
Ali Shogentsukov
Soviet poet (1900–1941)
Atner Khuzangay
Chuvash Russian philologist and literary critic
Yaroslav Smelyakov
Russian journalist and poet (1913-1972)
Sergey Kavtaradze
Georgian Soviet diplomat (1885-1971)
Mikhail Matusovsky
Soviet poet (1915–1990)
Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
Lithuanian writer (1893–1967)

Rita Rait-Kovaleva
Russian writer (1898-1988)

Leonid Pervomayskiy
Ukrainian poet (1908–1973)

Batir Zakirov
Uzbek singer, actor and painter (1936–1985)
Piatro Hliebka
Soviet Belarusian playwright, translator and poet (1905-1969)
Viktor Gusev
Soviet poet, playwright, screenwriter, translator (1909-1944)

Ariadna Efron
painter (1912-1975)