Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky

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

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.

Examples of his songs

• Ballad of the Siberian Land (music by Nikolai Nikolayevich Kryukov) - 1947

The theme song of the film, “Ballad of Siberia”

• Yearning for the Motherland (in Russian: Тоска по родине, music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Opus 86) - 1948

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]

See also

• Encounter at the Elbe
• Song of the Forests
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• List of Russian poets

References

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