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- Birth nameVitaliy Alekseevitch Korotych
- Vitaliy Korotych was born on May 26, 1936 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer and actor, known for Takaya pozdnyaya, takaya tyoplaya osen (1982), Takaya korotkaya dolgaya zhizn (1975) and Khishchniki (1991). He was married to Zinaida Alexandrovna. He died on September 29, 2025 in Moscow, Russia.
- SpouseZinaida Alexandrovna(? - 2024) (her death, 3 children)
- ChildrenVitalyAndreiNikita
- His father and mother were professors of medicine.
- In 1989, Korotic was nominated as People's Deputies of the USSR in 14 districts. At the same time, the American magazine World Press Review declared him the best foreign editor of the year.
- In 1966-1969, he was one of the secretaries of the Republican Union of Writers.
- Graduated with honors from the Kiev Medical Institute in 1959 and even defended his PhD thesis, but soon realized that his vocation was literature.
- In 1978, he headed the magazine "Vsesvit" - the Ukrainian analogue of "Foreign Literature".
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