Leonid Martynov

Leonid Nikolayevich Martynov (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Мартынов; 22 May 1905, Omsk – 21 June 1980, Moscow) was a Soviet poet, journalist and translator.

Laureate of three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1965, 1970, 1975) and a USSR State Prize (1974).

From 1955, his poems began to be published widely in magazines and in book form.

[1] His style is of the old school of the 1920s, with many local references to Siberia.

[2][3] Aleksandr Lokshin set five poems by Martynov in his Ninth Symphony.