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Rimma Kazakova

Rimma Kazakova

Russian poet (1932–2008)


Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova (Russian: Ри́мма Фёдоровна Казако́ва; 27 January 1932 – 19 May 2008) was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. She was known for writing many popular songs of the Soviet era.

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Biography

Kazakova was born in Sevastopol, Soviet Union. She graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University. She worked as a lecturer in Khabarovsk.

Her first rhymes were reminiscent of Yevtushenko, Okudzhava, Voznesensky and Rozhdestvensky and were first published in 1955. Her first poetry collection, Let's Meet in the East (Russian: Встретимся на Востоке), was published in 1958.

From 1959 until her death, she was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers. She also held the position of First Secretary of the Moscow Union of Writers.

In October 1993, she signed the Letter of Forty-Two.[1]

She died at age 76 at a medical sanatorium in Yudino village of Moscow Oblast, Russia on 19 May 2008. She was buried on 22 May 2008 at Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.

Notable works

  • There, Where You Are
  • Verses
  • Fridays
  • In Taiga Nobody Cries
  • Fir-trees Green
  • Snow Babe
  • I Remember
  • On White
  • Country named Love
  • Touchstone
  • Out of Mind
  • Plot of Hope

Honours and awards

See also


References

  1. Писатели требуют от правительства решительных действий. Izvestia (in Russian). 5 October 1993. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.



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