Occupation Poet Name Rimma Kazakova Nationality Russian Role Poet | Period 1950s–2000s Resting place Vagankovo Cemetery Genre Poetry Children Egor Radov | |
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Born January 27, 1932
Sevastopol, Soviet Union ( 1932-01-27 ) Alma mater Leningrad State University Died May 19, 2008, Odintsovo, Russia Education Saint Petersburg State University Similar People Leonid Derbenyov, Aleksandr Zatsepin, Igor Krutoy | ||
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Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova (Russian: Ри́мма Фёдоровна Казако́ва, 27 January 1932, Sevastopol, Soviet Union — 19 May 2008, Perkhushkovo, Odintsovo District of Moscow Oblast, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian poet. She was known as an author of many popular songs of the Soviet era.
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Biography
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 («Встретимся на Востоке»), was published in 1958.
From 1959 until her death, she was a member of the USSR Union of 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.
She died suddenly at age 76 at a medical sanatorium near Perkhushkovo on 19 May 2008 at 1pm. She was buried on 22 May 2008 at Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.