Mikhail Lvovich Matusovsky (Russian: Михаил Львович Матусовский; 23 July 1915, Lugansk, Slavyanoserbsk uezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire – 16 July 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian poet, screenwriter, translator and war correspondent.
His father is Lev Matusovsky (Russian Wikipedia) Mikhail Lvovich Matusovsky was born in Luhansk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire in the Jewish family of a photographer.
A participant of the Great Patriotic War, and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers (1939).
[1] He is famous for his lyric poems many of which became lyrics of the popular songs: "School Waltz", "In the Damp Earth-Huts", "The Sacred Stone", "The Windows of Moscow", "Don't Forget" and "Moscow Nights" which was sung at the Moscow Youth Festival in 1957 and was played also by American pianist Van Cliburn in the White House in 1979, on the occasion of a visit by the former President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.
This song made an entry into the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the song most frequently sang in the world and in March 1962 made Kenny Ball's disk reached #2 on the U.S.