Vitaly Bianki

Vitaly Bianki was a popular children’s writer. He was born 30.01.1894 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. His favorite genres are were (maintain past tense) natural history and children's literature. Often he wrote stories about forester, their life and adventure forest-dwellers; their lives and adventures (or the lives and adventures of forest-dwellers ... this second version feels more conversational). The His most famous work of his is "Forest Newspaper for Every Year". (punctuation stays inside parenthesis), which It is an encyclopedia of forest life and forest inhabitants (it's not necessarily wrong to have this second sentence stand on it's own, but it flows better when it completes the thought started in the preceding sentence, rather than starting a new thought). The heritage ouvre of this writer consists of over 300 short stories, fairy tales, stories, and articles, which make up 120 books.
Vitali Bianki died in Leningrad 10 June 1959. (this final date MUST be in the same form as his birthday, so either have his birth date be 30 January 1894, or have his death date be 10.06.1959) 

Thank you for sharing this! I had never heard of this author, and I might just have to check him out :)