Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky

Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky (Russian: Евге́ний Аро́нович Долмато́вский, May 5, 1915 – September 10, 1994) was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.

Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky (second from right), with Vasily Azhayev (in sunglasses), Paul Wiens (left), and Grete Weiskopf (right), 1954

Examples of his songs
  • Ballad of the Siberian Land (music by Nikolai Nikolayevich Kryukov) - 1947
The theme song of the film, Ballad of Siberia
The theme song of the film, Encounter at the Elbe
  • Song of the Forests （music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949
    • The Pioneers Plant Trees
  • The Motherland Listens (in Russian: Родина слышит, music by Dmitri Shostakovich) - 1951
This song is from "Four Songs on Verses by Dolmatovsky, for Voice, Wordless Chorus & Piano, Opus 86 (1951). It is well known in Russia that Yuri Gagarin was singing this song while circling the earth as the first man in space.[1]
gollark: True enough, I guess! You could probably just edit your mind if it was a problem, if you had the technology to upload it into plasma.
gollark: "Flesh" is the biological carbon-y meat humans/animals/etc are currently made of. The particles or whatever would be your *body*, but not "flesh".
gollark: Hmm, that *would* be better actually.
gollark: Plasma is imperfect. We should directly write our minds into the interactions of fundamental particles.
gollark: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/348702212110680064/849415360524058714/image0.png?width=431&height=422

See also

References
  1. Songs (4) on verses by Dolmatovsky, for voice, wordless chorus & piano, Op. 86


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