February 3

Vira Viktorivna Halushka (Ukrainian: Віра Вікторівна Галушка, Russian: Вера Викторовна Галушка,Vera Viktorovna Galushka; born 3 February 1982), better known by her stage name Vera Brezhneva (Russian: Вера Брежнева, Ukrainian: Віра Брежнєва), is a Ukrainian pop-singer andtelevision presenter. Vera was born on February 3, 1982 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. She was raised in an ordinary family. Her mother, Tamara, is Russian, and her father, Viktor is mixed of Ukrainian and Russian descent. Her father worked in a chemical factory located by the Dnieper River. Her mother, who had graduated from medical school, worked in the same place. Vera has three sisters - one older (Halyna) and two younger (Nastya and Vika, twins). She bought a flat for her parents in Boryspil, nearby Kiev. The father of Vera's daughter (Sonia) is Vitaliy Voychenko, to whom Vira was married for a few years. She graduated from the Rail Engineering Institute of Dnipropetrovsk as an economist.

Arkadii Trofimovich Dragomoshchenko (Russian: Арка́дий Трофи́мович Драгомо́щенко; 3 February 1946 - 12 September 2012) was a Russian poet, writer, translator, and lecturer. He is considered the foremost representative of language poetry in contemporary Russian literature.

Books translated in English

·         Description. A book of poetry, translated by Lyn Hejinian. LA: Sun & Moon Press, 1990.

·         Xenia. A book of poetry, translated by Lyn Hejinian. LA: Sun & Moon Press, 1994.

·         Chinese Sun. A novel, translated by Evgeny Pavlov. Eastern European Poets Series No. 9. New York, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005.

·         Dust. Collected prose, translated by Thomas Epstein, Evgeny Pavlov, and Shushan Avagyan. Urbana-Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009.

Books in Russian

·         Nebo Sootvetstvii. [Sky of Correspondence] A book of poetry, Sovetskii Pisatel’ Press, Leningrad, 1990.

·         Xenia. A book of poetry, Borei & Mitin Journal Press, St Peterburg, 1994.

·         Phosphor. A book of prose, Severo-Zapad Press, St Petersburg, 1994.

·         Pod Podozreniem. [Under Suspicion] A book of poetry, Borey-Art Press, St Petersburg, 1994.

·         Kitajskoe Solnce. [Chinese Sun] A novel, Borey-Art Press & Mitin Journal, St Petersburg, 1997.

·         Opisanie. [Selected] A book of poetry, Gumanitarnaia Akademia Press, St Petersburg, 2000.

·         Na Beregakh Iskliuchennoj Reki. [On the Banks of an Excluded River] A book of poetry, OGI Press, Moscow, 2006.

·         Bezrazlichia. [Indifferences] Collected prose, Borey-Art Press, St Petersburg, 2007.

·         POP 3, with Margarita Meklina. Epistolary novel, Lulu Press, 2008.

·         Shoaling Things. (co-authored by Jan Lauwereyns, with a drawing by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven) Ghent, Belgium: Druksel, 2011.

·         Tavtologia. [Tautology] Collected poetry, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Press, Moscow,2011.