Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (June 4, 1964) was a Russian writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems of William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories.

Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky was a Soviet poet, chief editor of "Novy Mir" literary magazine (1950-1954, 1958-1970). Tvardovsky fought hard to maintain the traditional independence "Novy Mir" had, even against official disapproval. During his editorship the magazine published Ilya Ehrenburg's "Thaw" in 1954, "The Vologda Wedding" by Aleksandr Yashin in 1962, …

Konstantin Simonov (in Petrograd - August 28 1979 in Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian author. His full name was Konstantin (born Kirill) Mikhailovich Simonov. He was a well-known war poet who wrote a popular poem called "Wait for me", about a soldier in the war asking his beloved to wait for his return. The poem was addressed to his wife, the actress Valentina Serova. It was immensely popular at the time and remains one of the best-known poems in the Russian language.

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 blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination.

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 Literature Institute and at the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature. Kogan twice hiked the trails of central Russia. He learned about World War II while on a geological expedition to Armenia. Returning immediately to Moscow, he tried to enlist in the army, but was turned down due to his poor health.

Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (born March 13, 1913) is a Russian author of children's books and satirical fables who had the opportunity to write the lyrics of his country's national anthem on three different occasions, spanning almost 60 years. Mikhalkov stemmed from a noble family and had tsarist admirals, governors, and princes among his grandparents.

Boris Kornilov (" was a Soviet, communist poet. He is probably best known for penning the words to "The Song of the Meeting" ("Песня о встречном) which was used to open the morning radio broadcast throughout the Soviet Union, even for years after its author was killed in Stalin's purges. Kornilov has been posthumously rehabilitated, and there is a museum and a statue dedicated to him in the town of Semyonov, near his birthplace.

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 of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR from 1945. Vurgun was awarded the USSR State Prize for his dramas: in 1941 for "Vagif" (1937) and in 1942 for "Farhad and Shirin" (1941). Vurgun began publishing in 1924. The Azerbaijan State Russian Dramatic Theatre and streets in Baku and Moscow are named after him.

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky is probably the most popular poet for children in the Russian language. His poems Doctor Aybolit (Айболит), "Giant Roach" (Тараканище), "Crocodile" (Крокодил) and "Wash'em'clean" (Мойдодыр) have been favourites with many generations of Russophone children. He also was an influential literature critic and essayist.

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 Nikolaevich Volov. She studied at a ballet school. She liked poetry very much and soon started to write her own, trying to imitate Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Mayakovsky. At her graduation ceremony from the ballet school she read her poetry, among the guests was the Minister for Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, …

Yulia Drunina ((May 10 1924 - November 21 1991) was a Russian poet. Her works were characterised with classical clarity, she often used real life experiences (such as participation in the war) as a source of inspiration for her writings. Her own war experience had a long-lasting and painful impression on her. During the perestroika era, she was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR; during the August Coup, 1991, …

Yuri Vizbor was a well-known Russian bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor.

Mikhail Svetlov (Шейнкман) (in Yekaterinoslav – September 28, 1964 in Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian poet. Svetlov was born into the poor Jewish family. He has been published since 1917. A member of Komsomol since 1919, Svetlov was sent to the "1st Congress of Proletarian Writers" in Moscow in 1920 and took part in the Russian Civil War as a volunteer rifleman in the same year. Two years later, Svetlov published his first collection of poems, "Rails".

Pavlo Tychyna was a major Ukrainian poet. His initial work had strong connections to the symbolist literary movement, but his style transformed a number of times during his long career and frequently aped the acceptable socialist realism. His first works exploded onto the avant-garde Ukrainian scene with their colorful imagery and dynamic rhythms.

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 Lithuania.

Avetik Isahakian, Kazarapat, near Aleksandropol, current Gyumri – October 17 1957, Yerevan) was an Armenian lyric poet. Isahakian was educated at the Kevorkian seminary in Echmiadzin and later at Leipzig University, where he studied philosophy and anthropology. He was exiled from the Russian Empire in 1911 due to his revolutionary ideas and actions, and settled in Europe. He would later return to the Armenian SSR in 1936.

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 Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He was one of the editors of Einigkeit (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine. He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets.

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) of Kiev guberniya, Imperial Russia. He was a very prolific poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Yiddish, and his poems were widely translated into Russian and Ukrainian. He is considered one of the greatest Soviet poets in the Yiddish language and his poems were widely admired inside and outside Russia.

Maksym Tadeyovich Rylsky was a Ukrainian poet. He began writing as a representative of 'pure art' doctrine, during the Stalinist years adopted the official doctrine of 'socialist realism' (Rylsky's panegyry of Stalin: Stalin#Cult of personality). Later, Rylsky returned to neo-classical forms.

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 USSR languages, such as Russian and Ossetian. Quli was born on November 1, 1917, in Balkar aul Upper Chegem to a family headed by a stock-breeder and hunter. He spent his childhood in the mountains, but became an orphan and started to work at an early age. In 1926 a school was established in his aul, …

Srul Bronshtein was a Romanian and Soviet Yiddish-language poet.

Mykola Platonovych Bazhan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer and poet.