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Yevgeny Yevtushenko was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films.
* He was born in Zima, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, on July 18, 1933.
* He studied at the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow from 1951 to 1954.
* He became one of the most prominent poets of the Khrushchev Thaw, and his work often dealt with social and political issues.
* He was a vocal critic of Stalinism and anti-Semitism, and his poems were often banned in the Soviet Union.
* He was also a successful international poet, and his work has been translated into more than 100 languages.
* He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 1, 2017.