Akim Samar
Akim Dmitriyevich Samar was a Soviet poet and novelist regarded as the first Nanai-language writer.
Born in the Russian Far East in 1916, Samar was a student at Institute of the Peoples of the North in Leningrad and joined the Red Army after Nazi Germany [Operation Barbarossa|invaded the Soviet Union]. He died at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943. His works included the poetry collections Songs of the Nanai and Poems and the 1941 novel A Poor Man's Son.