Valentin Kolumb

Valentin Kolumb (Mari and Russian: Валентин Христофорович Колумб, 1935 - 1974) was a Mari poet.

He was also a translator, translating works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Shakespeare, Sándor Petőfi, Nikolay Nekrasov, Alexander Blok, Sergei Yesenin, Aleksandr Tvardovsky and others into Mari.

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* [http://www.mari.ee/rus/scien/books/kolumb.htm 90th birth anniversary article]