Yevgen Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born in 1932 in what is now Irkutsk Oblast. The writer first presented his poems at the age of 5, and at 20 he became the youngest member of the Writers' Union.

In 1961 he wrote the poem "Babi Yar", which was later translated into 72 languages of the world, and in 1963 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. 

In 1991 he moved to the USA, where in 1993 he published a fundamental anthology of 20th-century Russian poetry covering 875 figures.

On March 31, 2017, it became known that he had been hospitalized in one of the American clinics, and on April 1 the poet passed away.