Dementyev was considered one of the outstanding Russian and Soviet poets of the late 20th century.

It includes a novel about Mikhail Kalinin (August from Revel, 1970), as well as lyrics of many popular songs of the Soviet epoch (Alyonushka, Swans’ Fidelity, Father's Home, A Ballade about the Mother, etc.)

[4] In Dementyev's works the ideals of romanticism, humanism, and compassion are asserted.

The characteristic of his poems is a sharp feeling of patriotism, rejection of the negative traits of the present, bitter irony, lyricism, optimism, enjoying simple things, loving the nature.

[5][6] Andrey Dementyev died in Moscow shortly before his 90th birthday.