Poet L. Aselrud was born on May 21, 1933, in the village of Ilyintsy, Vinnytsia region of the Ukrainian SSR.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was evacuated to Central Asia. Since 1944, he has lived in Frunze. In 1951, he graduated from Secondary School No. 1 in Frunze, and in 1956 — from the philological faculty of KRU.
He began his labor biography in 1956 as a teacher of the Russian language and literature in a rural school, then worked in a secondary school in Frunze.
He has been published since 1950. The initial period of the poet's creativity was later represented in a section of the book "Timbre," published in 1983. His first poetry collection "Bud" was published in 1963. The poetry collections "Crossroads" (1976) and "Voices" (1980) are books of quintains, representing a unique experience in domestic poetry. The poet's poems have been published in the press of the Central Asian republics, in many regions of the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Baltic republics. Some of them have been translated into German, Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Mongolian. L. Axelrud's fruitful work as a translator, mainly from Kyrgyz, has found its place in numerous collections of local and central publishers.
Member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1986.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
In Russian
Bud: Poems and a Poem. — Frunze: Kyrgyzgosizdat, 1963. — 44 pages.
Keys. — Tselinograd: Tselinny Regional House of Folk Art, 1965. — 56 pages.
Equilibrium. — Kaliningrad: Regional Book Publishing House, 1968. — 40 pages.
Continent: Poems. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1969. — 32 pages.
Cargo: Poems and Poems. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1974. — 103 pages.
Crossroads: A Book of Quintains. — Frunze: Mektep, 1976. — 68 pages.
Voices: A Lyric Trilogy (Quintains). — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1980. — 108 pages.
Timbre: Fragments from the Poem, Various Poems, Quintains. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1983. — 152 pages.
Housewarming. — Frunze: Kyrgyzstan, 1987. — 143 pages.
TRANSLATIONS
Isakov I. The Inquisitive Boy: Poems. — Frunze: Mektep, 1974. — 28 pages.
