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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Born | Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova 27 January 1932 Sevastopol, Crimean ASSR, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 19 May 2008 Yudino, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia | (aged 76)
Resting place | Vagankovo Cemetery |
Occupation | Poet, television presenter, singer |
Nationality | Russian |
Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
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.