- Source: Valentin Kolumb
Valentin Khristoforovich Kolumb (Mari and Russian: Валентин Христофорович Колумб, 3 May 1935, Mizener - 8 December 1974) was a Mari poet.
He was also a translator, translating works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Shakespeare, Sándor Petőfi, Nikolay Nekrasov, Alexander Blok, Sergei Yesenin, Aleksandr Tvardovsky and others into Mari.
Sources
(in Russian) 80th birth anniversary article
