Leonid Gubanov (poet)

In 1994, the first compilation of Leonid Gubanov, The Angel in the Snow, was published by the publishing house IMA-PRESS.

He died on September 8, 1983 at the age of thirty-seven, buried in Moscow at the Khovanskoye Cemetery.

In early 1965, together with Vladimir Aleinikov, Vladimir Batshev, Yuri Kublanovsky and others, he participated in the creation of the independent literary and artistic association SMOG.

On December 5, 1965, he took part in a glasnost meeting on Pushkin Square in Moscow. After some time, he was forcibly incarcerated in a special Soviet "psychiatric hospital".

Then he entered the literary studio of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers. Famous poets paid attention to him. In 1964, Yevgeny Yevtushenko helped to print an excerpt from a poem by Leonid Gubanov in the magazine Yunost. This publication was the last publication of Leonid Gubanov in the Soviet press.

He began writing poetry since childhood. In 1962 he entered the literary studio at the district library. Several of his poems were published in the newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda. Then he became interested in futurism and created a neo-futuristic samizdat magazine.

Leonid Georgyevich Gubanov (Russian: Леони́д Гео́ргиевич Губа́нов; July 20, 1946 – September 8, 1983) was a Soviet poet, creator of unofficial literary circle SMOG.

He was married to poetess Alyona Basilova [ru] (1943 — 2018).