Rimma Kazakova

Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. She was known for writing many popular songs of the Soviet era.

Biography

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, 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.
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.