Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf, born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg, was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeny Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov. He was born in 1897 and died in 1937. Together with Petrov he published two popular comedy novels, The Twelve Chairs in 1928 and The Little Golden Calf in 1931, and a satirical book, often translated as Little Golden America, that documented their journey through the United States in 1935 and 1936.
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was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeny Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s
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Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg; Russian: Иехиел-Лейб Арьевич Файнзильберг; 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1897
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13 April 1937) was a Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeny Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov. Together they published two
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