Soviet Poet
1. Musa Cälil (1906)
Soviet Poet
Soviet poet, Nazi resistance fighter, and 1957 Lenin Prize in literature recipient. His best-known works include The Moabit Notebooks and The Postman.
2. Petrus Brovka (1905)
Soviet Poet
Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka was a Soviet Belarusian poet more commonly recognized by his literary pseudonym Petrus Brovka.
3. Vladislav Zanadvorov (1914)
Soviet Poet
Vladislav Leonidovich Zanadvorov was a Soviet writer best known for his World War II poems. A geologist by profession Zanadvorov was conscripted into the Red Army in February 1942 and...
4. Leib Kvitko (1890)
Soviet Poet
Leib Kvitko was a prominent Yiddish poet an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. He was one of the editors of Eynikayt...
5. Aman Kekilov (1912)
Soviet Poet
Aman Kekilov was a Soviet Turkmen poet.
6. Aaly Tokombaev (1904)
Soviet Poet
Aaly Tokombaev was born on November 7 1904 in Kyrgyzstan in the village of Chon-Kemin which is known as Kemin Raion. Tokombaev was a poet composer and a famous novelist...
7. Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910)
Soviet Poet
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky was a Soviet poet and writer chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. His name has also been rendered...
8. Itzik Feffer (Unknow)
Soviet Poet
Itzik Feffer also Fefer was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets during Joseph Stalin's purges.
9. Yulia Drunina (1924)
Soviet Poet
Yulia Vladimirovna Drunina was a Soviet poet who wrote in the Russian-language. She was a nurse during World War II and known for writing lyrics and poetry about women at...
10. Konstantin Simonov (1915)
Soviet Poet
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov was a Russian/Soviet author known as a war poet. Born in Kirill he later changed his name to Konstantin.
11. Olga Bergholz (Unknow)
Soviet Poet
Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz was a Soviet poet. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade when she became the symbol of city's strength...
