Jūlijs Vanags

Jūlijs Vanags (8 July [O.S.

25 June] 1903, Ungurmuiža Parish (now Jēkabpils District), Russian Empire – 12 October 1986, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian and Soviet writer and a co-author of the text of the Anthem of the Latvian SSR.

[1] He also wrote plays, children's books, poetry, stories and translated many works into Latvian including Leo Toltsoy's Anna Karenina, Alexander Pushkin's Ruslan and Ludmilla and The Stone host by Lesya Ukrainika.

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