Jūlijs Vanags

Jūlijs Vanags (8 July 1903, Ungurmuiža Parish (now Jēkabpils District), Russian Empire – 12 October 1986, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Soviet and Latvian writer and a co-author of the text of the Anthem of the Latvian SSR. He also wrote plays, childrens books, poetry, stories and translated many works into latvian including Leo toltsoys Anna karenina, Alexander pushkins Ruslan and ludmilla and The stone host by Lesya ukrainika.