Kazakova, Rimma Fedorovna

Born Jan. 27, 1932, in Sevastopol’. Soviet Russian poet.

Kazakova graduated from Leningrad State University in 1954 and worked in the Far East as a lecturer at the Khabarovsk Officers’ House and as an editor at a newsreel studio. She was first published in 1955. Her poetry is imbued with civic enthusiasm and the romance of the Soviet man’s struggle for happiness and dignity. Her collections of verse include Let Us Meet in the East (1958), Verses (1962), They Do Not Weep in the Taiga (1965), To Trust in the Snow (1967), and Green Firs (1969). Kazakova is a translator of both Soviet national and foreign poets.