page_title: Ilf and Petrov
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caption_attribution_description: English: Russian writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov Italiano: Gli scrittori russi Il'ja Arnol'dovič Il'f e Evgenij Petrovič Petrov Русский: Русские писатели Илья Ильф и Евгений Петров
context_page_description: Ilya Ilf and Evgeny or Yevgeni Petrov were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov". They were natives of Odessa.
context_section_description: Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg) (Russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897–1937)  and Evgeny or Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev/Katayev or Russian: Евгений Петрович Катаев, 1902–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov". They were natives of Odessa.
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