Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Спарта́кович Пляцко́вский; 1935–1991) was a Soviet songwriter and playwright.

Born 2 November 1935 in Yenakiyeve. He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.^[2]

He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers (1973).^[3]

He worked in collaboration with Vladimir Shainsky, Serafim Tulikov, Vyacheslav Dobrynin, Yuri Antonov, Arno Babajanian.

Plyatskovsky died on 26 January 1991. He was buried in Moscow on Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.^[4]

The first professional song written by composer Semyon Zaslavsky March of the astronauts. In the years 1960-1970 Mikhail Plyatskovsky becoming one of the leading songwriters. following popular songs were written in his poems:

• Take a Guitar
• Volga Flows Into My Heart
• All the Same, We Will Meet
• If There Is Love
• Cuckoo
• Once Again About Love
• Redhead Blizzard
• Slides
• You Invented Herself
• If You Are Good
• I'll Take You to the Tundra
• The Girl from Apartment 45
• Letkajenkka
• No Wonder the People I Talked
• The Roof of Your House
• Do Not Care About Me
• Do Not Repeat This Ever

and many others^[5]

• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1986) -- for pioneering songs^[3]
• Order of the Badge of Honour^[3]