Valerii Frantsevich Salatko-Petrishe (pseud. Valerii Pereleshin; July 7(20), 1913, Irkusts - November 7, 1992 Rio de Janeiro), Russian poet, writer, translator, journalist.

In 1920, emigrated with his mother to Harbin, where graduated from the gymnasium, then studied law and Chinese language and Chinese law.

His first poems were published in 1928 and translations from English and Chinese in the late 1930s. In 1932, together with Larissa Andersen and other young poets who lived in Harbin, he was a member of the literary association "Churaevka" headed by Aleksei Achair.

In 1937 he started his theological studies at the Institute of St. Vladimir; in 1938 he took monastic vows under the name German at the Kazan-Bogorodsky monastery in Harbin. In 1939 he moved to Beijing and began working in the Russian Orthodox Mission. In 1943 graduated from the theological department of the University of Harbin, taught at the Russian Orthodox Mission in Beijing. In 1945 he left the ministry and began working as a translator in the TASS.

In 1946 he received Soviet citizenship. In 1950, he decided to move permanently to the United States, but was expelled from there for trying to "create the Chinese Communist Party." He moved to Brazil in 1953, and to the end of his life lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he taught Russian, worked as a seller in a jewelry store, etc.

He finally settled in Brazil, where he lived until his death. He worked as a salesman in a jewelry store, at a furniture factory, taught English, was a librarian at the British consulate, taught Russian at a naval school. He practically did not write during his first years in Brazil. Only since 1967 he started publish his poems in Russian émigré newspapers and magazines.