Yuri Pokalchuk

He was the older brother of the writer and psychologist Oleg Pokalchukand a member of the literary group "The Dogs of Saint Yur".

Additionally, he was an organizer and leader of the musical group "Lights of a big city" which performed songs set to his texts.

[2] In the Soviet Union Pokalchuk was one of the first translators of the works by Jorge Luis Borges.

Translated by Ernest Hemingway, J. D. Salinger, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Rimbaud and many others.

He knew 11 foreign languages, including Polish, English, Spanish, and French.