One of the streets of New York officially given the name of Sergey Dovlatov

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a legislative act, according to which one of the streets in Queens should be given the name of Russian writer and journalist Sergey Dovlatov. This information was confirmed on Thursday. ITAR-TASS in the press service of de Blasio.

The bill was approved by the New York City Council on June 28. According to the document, a total of 63 object in the largest metropolis of the United States must be renamed or get a new name. In particular, the currently unavailable intersection of 108 Street and 63 Road in New York’s Queens district, where the writer lived more than 10 years after immigration, will be called Sergei Dovlatov Way. When the new tablet will appear on the spot, the press service of the mayor has not yet been able to clarify.

Sergei Dovlatov was born on September 3, 1941 in Ufa on Gogol Street, in the family of a theater director and literary proofreader. Later, he repeatedly mentioned his hometown in his works. In the mid-1940s, the Dovlatov family moved to Leningrad. The writer began his creative career in Tallinn, where he worked as a newspaper correspondent, then as a guide in the Pushkin Nature Reserve near Pskov.

In 1976, he returned to Leningrad: he wrote prose, but nothing came of numerous attempts to be printed in Soviet journals. From the end of 1960, Dovlatov was published in samizdat, and in 1976, some of his stories came out in the West.

In 1978, Dovlatov emigrated to Vienna, then moved to New York, where many of his books were first published. Here the writer died 24 August 1990 of the year from heart failure. There are plaques in memory of Dovlatov in Ufa, Tallinn and St. Petersburg.

ITAR-TASS