Rimma Kazakova
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Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova (Russian: Римма Фёдоровна Казакова, January 27, 1932, Sebastopol, USSR — May 19, 2008, Perhushkovo, Odintsovskiy District of Moscow Oblast, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian poet. She was known as an author of many popular songs of the Soviet era.
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.
Since 1959 she was a member of the USSR Union of Writers. She also held the position of First Secretary of the Moscow Union of Writers.
She died suddenly at age 76 at a medical sanatorium near Perkhushkovo on May 19, 2008 at 1 pm local time. She was buried on May 22, 2008 at Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.
[edit] Most important works
- There, where you are «Там, где ты»
- Verses / «Стихи»
- Fridays / «Пятницы»
- In Taiga Nobody Cries / «В тайге не плачут»
- Fir-trees Green / «Елки зеленые»
- Snow Babe / «Снежная баба»
- I Remember / «Помню»
- On White / «Набело»
- Country named Love / «Страна Любовь»
- Touchstone / «Пробный камень»
- Out of Mind / «Сойди с холма»
- Plot of Hope / «Сюжет надежды».
