Samuil Marshak

Samuil Marshak

male, deceased (1964)
Jewish, poet, Marshak, Playwright, Sovietpoet, Stalin Prize winner
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (June 4, 1964) was a Russian writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William...
Aleksandr Tvardovsky

Aleksandr Tvardovsky

male, deceased (1971)
Sovietpoet, journalist, editor, poet, Novy Mir, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich…soviet
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky was a Soviet poet, chief editor of "Novy Mir" literary magazine (1950-1954, 1958-1970). Tvardovsky fought hard to...
Konstantin Simonov

Konstantin Simonov

male, deceased (1979)
Hero of Socialist Labor, petrograd, Russian, poet, soviet, Sovietpoet…War poet
Konstantin Simonov (in Petrograd - August 28 1979 in Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian author. His full name was Konstantin (born Kirill) Mikhailovich...
Olga Berggolts

Olga Berggolts

female, deceased (1975)
Soviet women writer, Russian women writer, From Saint Petersburg, blockade, soviet, siege of leningrad…Sovietpoet, poet
Olga Fyodorovna Berggolts (also Berggoltz or Bergholz was a Soviet poet. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's...
Pavel Kogan

Pavel Kogan

male, deceased (1942)
Jewish, poet, World War II, Sovietpoet, Russian, soviet
Pavel Davidovich Kogan was a Soviet poet. Though born in Kiev, Pavel and his family moved to Moscow in 1922. He studied at the Maxim Gorky...
Sergey Mikhalkov

Sergey Mikhalkov

male, 96 years old
National anthem writer, Hero of Socialist Labor, Alexander Alexandrov, National Anthem of the Soviet Union, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov…Sovietpoet
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (born March 13, 1913) is a Russian author of children's books and satirical fables who had the opportunity to write...
Boris Kornilov

Boris Kornilov

male
poet, Sovietpoet, communist, stalin, soviet, Great Purge
Boris Kornilov (" was a Soviet, communist poet. He is probably best known for penning the words to "The Song of the Meeting" ("Песня о встреч...
Samad Vurgun

Samad Vurgun

male, deceased (1956)
Samad Vakilov, Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR, Farhad and Shirin, Stalin Prize winner, azerbaijan, Azerbaijan SSR…soviet, Sovietpoet, poet
Samad Vurgun, born Samad Vakilov was a prominent Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, honoured worker of arts of Azerbaijan SSR and a member of the Academy...
Korney Chukovsky

Korney Chukovsky

male, deceased (1969)
poet, Sovietpoet, Russian, Essayist, Literary critic, literary criticism
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky is probably the most popular poet for children in the Russian language. His poems Doctor Aybolit (Айболит), "Giant...
Agniya Barto

Agniya Barto

female, deceased (1981)
Italian, Veterinarian, Sovietpoet, brother, Russian, poet
Agniya Lvovna Barto,, (April 1 1981), was a Russian poet and children's writer. Agniya was born to the family of a Moscow veterinarian Lev...