Leonid Derbenyov(1931-1995)

Leonid Derbenyov is a Soviet and Russian songwriter, lyricist, translator. Lived in the village of Ulovo, Suzdal district, from where he later moved to Moscow with his grandfather's family. The poet's debut was the publication of poems in the all-Union newspaper 'Pionerskaya Pravda'. The author was then in the seventh grade of high school. In 1954 he graduated from the Moscow Law Institute, after which he worked as a lawyer in various organizations, while writing poetry, some of which were published in Komsomolskaya Pravda, Izvestia, Moskovskiy Komsomolets and other periodicals. Translated poetry of the peoples of the USSR. Since 1959, Derbenyov switched to creative work, wrote songs, and in the 1960s often acted as a translator of Western hits. He created more than two thousand poems, hundreds of which became the basis of songs. Author of the lyrics of popular songs that were part of the repertoire of Soviet and later Russian pop stars.