Vladímir Admóni was a
Soviet linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, doctor of philological Sciences (1947), Professor (1948).
Correspondent member of Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, doctor honoris causa at the University of Uppsala.
President of the Bureau of the section of literary translation of the Leningrad branch of USSR.
He wrote numerous works of the German language, the theory of grammar, essays about German and Scandinavian literature. Verses, prose memoir, poetic and prose translations from German and the Scandinavian languages to Russian .
He published a number of own artistic works written in German language or in German translations.
