Yefim MedvedovskiyYefim Medvedovskiy was born in 1938 in Leningrad. As a child, he lived through all 900 days of the Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade. Yefim worked as an engineer and was employed as a saxophone player by Lenconcert orchestras. e began to pursue poetry professionally at the age of forty, attending a number of Leningrad literary societies and taking classes from V. Kuznetsov, S. Davydov and A. Kushner. Yefim's poetry appeared in a literary almanac "Young Leningrad-84" and was highly praised and cited by the poet Yuri Voronov. Yefim's translations from Belorussian into Russian of the original poems by Sergei Grakhovskiy were published in the magazine "Neman." Yefim addressed the audience with a presentation of his poems at the Conference of Poets of the Northwest RSFSR. Yefim's poems were shown on the large screens at the annual St. Petersburg Anichkov Palace event, "A candle of memory" dedicated to the day when the Siege of Leningrad was ended. Yefim and his family emigrated to New York in 2003. His work appeared in the American publications "Islands", "Big Open World", "The Future's not Ours to See", "Jewish World", and "Intelligent". In 2018, the Pushkin Society in America presented poems from the book, "Archives of Memories", at the poetry reading in the Grand Central Library in Manhattan. Yefim is a member of the New York Blockade Society, Literary Club of New York and a frequent guest at the Pushkin Society in America events . https: //www.facebook.com/medvedovskiy/ Read More Read Less