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Born 21 September 1935
Odessa, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( 1935-09-21 ) Died 3 December 2012, Chelyabinsk, Russia | ||
Vadim Anatolyevich Moghilnitsky (Russian: Вади́м Анато́льевич Могильни́цкий; 21 September 1935, Odessa — 3 August 2012, Chelyabinsk) — mathematics teacher, musicologist, translator, poet. The author of the first Russian biography of Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter. Sister - Moghilnitskaya Galina Anatolyevna, Ukrainian pedagog, publicist and poet.
Vadim Moghilnitsky was born in Odessa in the family of mathematics teachers Anatoly Alexandrovich Moghilnitsky and Asya Ivanovna Zvintarnaya. Graduated from Odessa University. Since 1965 lived in Chelyabinsk where taught mathematics in South Ural State University.
Vadim Moghilnitsky is the author of two books about Sviatoslav Richter: "Richter" (first Russian biography of the pianist, 2000) and "Richter-ensemblist" (2012). Also Vadim Moghilnitsky is the translator of Vladislav Dulemba's "Chopin", the biography of Chopin (from Polish into Russian, 2001).
Vadim Moghilnitsky is the author of more than 200 pieces of poetry in Russian and Ukrainian languages. In 2015 the collection of selected poetry by Vadim Moghilnitsky was published: "Бессонные пути" ("Sleepless paths").