Katayev

[ kuh-tah-yif ]

noun

1. Va·len·tin Pe·tro·vich [v, uh, -lyin-, tyeen, pyi-, traw, -vyich], 1897–1986, Russian writer.

Example Sentences

Today, though, bureaucrats who don't want to relinquish control of valuable real estate are the problem, said Dmitri Katayev, a former city legislator who helped draft the first post-Soviet property laws.

From Washington Post

Eight actors from a theater in the Moravian town of Ostrava have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 20 months for "crude deformation" of a play by Soviet Writer Valentin Katayev.

From Time Magazine Archive