Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Спарта́кович Пляцко́вский; 1935–1991) was a Soviet playwright, poet and songwriter.

He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.

[3] He worked in collaboration with Vladimir Shainsky, Serafim Tulikov, Vyacheslav Dobrynin, Yuri Antonov, Arno Babajanian.

[4] The first professional song written by composer Semyon Zaslavsky "March of the Astronauts".

Popular songs written using his poems include: [5]