Rimma Kazakova

Rimma Kazakova
Rimma Kazakova
Born	27 January 1932; Sevastopol, Soviet Union
Died	19 May 2008 (aged 76); Perkhushkovo, Odintsovo District of Moscow Oblast, Russia
Resting place	Vagankovo Cemetery
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Leningrad State University
Period	1950s–2000s
Genre	Poetry

Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova (Russian: Ри́мма Фёдоровна Казако́ва; 27 January 1932 in Sevastopol, Soviet Union – 19 May 2008 in 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.

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.[1]

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.

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

Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (USSR)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (USSR)
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin" (USSR)
Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (USSR)
Commemorative Medal "The great Russian writer, Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov 1905-2005"

References

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

External links

Rimma Kazakova at the rg.ru

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[letter-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.