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Ilya Ilf
Life Time
15 October 1897 - 13 April 1937
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Ilya (Yehiel-Leib) Feinzilberg was born in Odessa on October 4 (new style October 16) 1897 in the family of a bank employee. In 1913 he graduated from technical school. After graduation, Ilya worked as a draftsman, serving at a telephone exchange and a military factory. After the revolution, Ilya worked as an accountant for some time, and then got a job in a humorous magazine as a journalist and editor. Ilya Ilf was a member of the Odessa Union of Poets. In 1923, he came to Moscow, where he got
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Ilya (Yehiel-Leib) Feinzilberg was born in Odessa on October 4 (new style October 16) 1897 in the family of a bank employee. In 1913 he graduated from technical school. After graduation, Ilya worked as a draftsman, serving at a telephone exchange and a military factory. After the revolution, Ilya worked as an accountant for some time, and then got a job in a humorous magazine as a journalist and editor. Ilya Ilf was a member of the Odessa Union of Poets.
In 1923, he came to Moscow, where he got a job in the newspaper Gudok. Ilya mainly wrote humorous articles and notes, feuilletons. In 1927, his acquaintance with Evgeny Petrov took place, which resulted in a joint well-known novel “Twelve Chairs”. Petrov also worked at the time in the newspaper “Gudok”. In 1928, Ilya was dismissed from the reaction of the newspaper to cut, followed by Evgeny Petrov. Together they came to a new place of work - in the editorial office of the humorous weekly magazine "Chudak".
In co-authorship with Petrov Ilya were written novels “Extraordinary stories from the life of the city of Kolokolamsk” in 1928, “1001 days, or New Scheherazade” in 1929, the novel “Golden calf” in 1931, the story “One-storey America” in 1937 and the fantastic story “Bright personality”. They worked together in the newspaper “Pravda”, until 1937 together wrote various feuilletons.
Their joint work continued for many years. The light saw their other works: “Wide scope”, “Wonderful guests”, “Honest heart of a fan”, “Man with a goose”, etc. In the 30s, Ilya Ilf became interested in photography. After his death, his photos were accidentally found by his daughter and published a book Ilya Ilf – Photographer, which included more than 200 of his photos.
Ilya Ilf died in Moscow after a sudden exacerbation of tuberculosis on April 13, 1937. A talented writer and journalist was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.