Rimma Kazakova

Rimma Kazakova studied at Saint Petersburg State Institute of History. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are poetry. Distinctions recorded are Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Friendship of Peoples and Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway".

• Born — 27 January 1932 • Birthplace — Sevastopol, Crimean ASSR, Soviet Union • Died — 19 May 2008 • Place of death — Yudino, Odintsovsky District, Russia • Resting Place — Vagankovo Cemetery • Occupation — Poet, television presenter, singer • Education — Leningrad State University • Birth Name — Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova

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.

• 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

The authorities additionally record the heading Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova. Her recorded language was Russian. One child is recorded: Yegor Radov.

Rimma Kazakova is recorded as poet, lyricist, translator, writer and pedagogue.