- female, deceased (1991)
- Yulia Drunina ((May 10 1924 - November 21 1991) was a Russian poet. Her works were characterised with classical clarity, she often used real life...
- male, deceased (1984)
- Yuri Vizbor was a well-known Russian bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor.
- male, deceased (1964)
- Mikhail Svetlov (Шейнкман) (in Yekaterinoslav – September 28, 1964 in Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian poet. Svetlov was born into the poor Jewish fam...
- male
- Pavlo Tychyna was a major Ukrainian poet. His initial work had strong connections to the symbolist literary movement, but his style transformed a...
- male
- Moyshe Kulbak (1896-1940?), was a Yiddish language writer, born in Smarhon in Belarus to a Jewish family. He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva in...
- male, deceased (1957)
- Avetik Isahakian, Kazarapat, near Aleksandropol, current Gyumri – October 17 1957, Yerevan) was an Armenian lyric poet. Isahakian was educated at th...
- male, deceased (1952)
- Leib Kvitko (October 15, 1890 — August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Je...
- male, deceased (1952)
- Itzik Feffer was a Soviet Yiddish poet who fell victim to Stalin's purges. Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod "uyezd" (district)...
- male
- Maksym Tadeyovich Rylsky was a Ukrainian poet. He began writing as a representative of 'pure art' doctrine, during the Stalinist years adopted the...
- male, deceased (1985)
- Kaysyn Shuvayevich Kuliev aka Qaysin Quli was a Balkar poet. He wrote in the Karachay-Balkar language and his poems are widely translated mostly to...
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