Igor Guberman is a Soviet dissident, a satirical poet, known to everyone without exception, thanks to his biting quatrains filled with self-irony and accurate assessments of reality by the “gariks" who are quoted everywhere, sometimes without even knowing the author’s name.
Childhood and youth
The biography of Igor Huberman, as well as the biography of many of his talented contemporaries, is full of Soviet realities. He was born in the 36th, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, on July 7. My father was an engineer, and therefore, after school, Garik entered the Moscow Institute to receive an engineering diploma. His older brother, David, also followed in his father's footsteps, developing the super-deep drilling method and becoming an academician.
It was during the student years in the 50s that Igor met the famous dissident Ginzburg and other creative people who had “too much freedom” for that time. During this period, he actively wrote poetry, publishing under various pseudonyms in Ginzburg's journal Syntax.
Arrest and immigration
After the institute, Huberman devoted several years to work in his specialty, was assigned to work in Ufa, and was a member of the local volleyball team there. But the career of the Soviet worker in the name of a brighter future did not attract him too much. He writes poetry, publishes, becomes the author of his own journal "Jews in the USSR", lives on fees and is engaged in some dubious affairs, for which he receives a term.
In 1979, Igor Huberman was sentenced for speculating for five years in a labor camp in Siberia. It was there that he wrote his famous Walks Around the Barracks, a magnificent social satire expressed through three heroes: the Loafer, Delyagu and the Writer. Returning home in 1984, for a long time he could not find work and housing for himself, but the "colleague in the shop", poet Samoilov, helped to register a satirist who was objectionable to the authorities in his house.
Few people know that Igor Mironovich Guberman is a script writer for several documentary science films, after his release he worked at the Leningrad film studio, and the author of a serious work on modern psychiatry. He wholeheartedly sought to leave Russia with his family, but at the OVIR they explained to him that the immigration of the Hubermans was considered inappropriate.
Igor had to fight for a long time, and in the end he went abroad in 1988. Then "Walks …" were published. By that time, Israel had already collected and published its "Garik", literally going from mouth to mouth, a separate book. There, in the early years of immigration, Huberman writes the book “Strokes to the Portrait”.
Despite the fact that Huberman has been an Israeli citizen for many years, he considers himself a Russian, loves his homeland and devotes almost all of his poems to Russia, often coming here for "poetry evenings".
