Yuno Semyonov

Yuno Shaulovich Semyonov (Russian: Юно Шаулович Семёнов; Hebrew: ;יונו סמיונוב 1899–1961) was a Soviet Union prose writer, playwright and artistic director.

During the Russian Civil War, he fought on the side of the Bolsheviks, becoming famous as a red partisan.

Joseph Stalin expressed gratitude in his letter to the sergeant Yuno Semyonov for the capture of the cities of Vienna and Budapest.

Yuno Semyonov died in 1961 on a train to Volgograd and was buried in his native city Derbent.

"[1] The main themes of Yuno Semyonov plays were the formation of a new socialist person, anti-religious propaganda (the poem (Russian: «Купить библию») - "Buy a Bible"), the fight against the remnants of the past and the collective construction of a new life.

In 1936, Yuno Semyonov at the call of the party promoting the mixing of peoples and interethnic marriages, wrote a play (Russian: «Сводный брат») - "Stepbrother" about the love of a mountain Jew for a Lezghin girl.