Dombrovskiy - Yuriy Osipovich Dombrovskiy (English notation)

Japanese: ドンブロフスキー - どんぶろふすきー（英語表記）Юрий　Осипович　Домбровский／Yuriy Osipovich Dombrovskiy

1909‐78
Soviet author. Born to a lawyer in Moscow. At the age of nine, he moved with his family to Samara, but his father died in 1920 and he was raised by his mother, who was a biology lecturer at Samara University. In 1922 he returned to Moscow with his family, graduated from a seven-year school and entered the Bryusov State Literary Institute. In 1932 he was arrested for political reasons and exiled to Alma-Ata (now Almaty), where he worked as a librarian and teacher before joining the Central Museum of Kazakhstan. He began writing in 1939, and published "The Monkey Comes for His Skull" in 1959 and "The Conservator of Antiquities" in 1966.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1909‐78
ソ連邦の作家。モスクワの弁護士の家の生れ。9歳のとき家族とともにサマラに移ったが，1920年に父が死亡，サマラ大学で生物学を講じていた母に養育された。22年一家とともにモスクワへ戻り，7年制の学校を卒業して，ブリューソフ記念文芸大学へ入学した。32年に政治的理由で逮捕され，アルマ･アタ(現アルマトゥイ)市に追放され，同地で図書館員，教師などを経て，カザフスタン中央博物館の館員になった。39年から執筆活動を始め，59年に《猿が自分の頭蓋骨を取りにくる》を，66年に《古代保存官》を刊行した。

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