Searching for obscure Russian composer

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I need help from IMSLP's knowledgeable community in trying to locate the name of an obscure Russian composer. I know very little--He supposedly died around the age of 23-24, lived (or died) somewhere in the early twentieth century, and had only one main orchestral work. Does anyone out there have any ideas as to the identity of this unknown person?
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Well, there's Vasily Kalinnikov but he hardly had "one" major orchestral work.
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Could this be Veniamin Fleishman born 1913 died 1941: student in Shostakovich's class... his opera Rothschild's Violin (after Chekhov's story) was completed and orchestrated by Shostakovich. see entries in wikipedia.
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I'm not sure; I'll have to ask the party interested. Are there any other possibilities out there?
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There's Alexei Stanchinksy (1888-1914), who only lived to be 25. He composed piano pieces mainly, though. In fact, I see no reference to an orchestral piece at all, only a sextet. Almost everything that survived was published by 1931 by Muzgiz.
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Veniamin Fleishman died at age 28 during WWII. His opera Rothschild's Violin was later completed by Shostakovich.
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