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nikolay zabolotsky.jpg nikolay zabolotsky
 7 may 1903 14 october 1958
nikolay zabolotsky

nikolay alexeyevich zabolotsky - -lrb- ; may 7 , 1903 - october 14 , 1958 -rrb- was a russian poet , children 's writer and translator .
he was a modernist and one of the founders of the russian avant-garde absurdist group oberiu .
