Nahum Korzhavin

Nahum (Naum) Moiseyevich Korzhavin (; real surname Mandel, ; 14 October 1925 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian-American poet. He was born in Kiev of Jewish descent, He worked and lived in Boston, Massachusetts during most of his career. In 2005 Korzhavin participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement. He wrote many memoirs and novels about dissidents.
Korzhavin died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on 22 June 2018 at the age of 92.