Rimma 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 (Russian: Встретимся на Востоке), was published in 1958.

From 1959 until her death, she was a member of the USSR Union of 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.[1]

She died suddenly at age 76 at a medical sanatorium near Perkhushkovo, Odintsovo District 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

• Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (USSR)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (USSR)
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
• Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin" (USSR)
• Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (USSR)
• Commemorative Medal "The great Russian writer, Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov 1905-2005"

• 1977 in poetry
• List of Russian-language poets

• Rimma Kazakova at the rg.ru
• Rimma Kazakova at Find a Grave