Rimma Kazakova

Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova (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.

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 (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.

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.

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
 * Order of Friendship of Peoples
 * Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
 * Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
 * Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway"