![]() Yerofeyev is best known for his 1969 " poem in prose" (ironical assignment of the genre) Moscow-Petushki (several English translations exist, including Moscow to the End of the Line and Moscow Stations). He started writing at the age of 17 in the 1960s he unsuccessfully submitted several articles on Ibsen and Hamsun to literary magazines. Later he studied in several more institutes in different towns, including Kolomna and Vladimir, but he never managed to graduate from any, usually being expelled due to his "amoral behaviour".Ä«etween 19, Yerofeyev lived without propiska in various towns in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania, also spending some time in Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan, doing different low-level and underpaid jobs for a time he lived and worked in the Muromtsev Dacha in Moscow. He managed to enter the philology department of the Moscow State University but was expelled from the university after a year and a half because he did not attend compulsory military training. Most of Yerofeyev's childhood was spent in Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast. His father was imprisoned during Great Purges but survived 16 years in the gulags. The record made in his birth certificate declares his birthplace to be his parents' place of residence: Chupa railway station, Loukhsky District, Karelian ASSR. Yerofeyev was born in the maternity hospital of Niva-3 by Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast, a settlement of " special settlers" employed in the construction of a hydroelectric power station Niva GES-3 on the Niva River.
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