Background
Lisnianskaia, Inna was born in 1928 in Baku.
Lisnianskaia, Inna was born in 1928 in Baku.
First poems published, 1949. First book of poetry Ею Bylo So Mnoiu, 1957. Several books published by official Soviet publishing houses.
Became famous in the Soviet Union. Resigned from the Union of Writers in protest against the crackdown on Metropol, 1979. Some poems circulated in samizdat, while some books of her poetry were published abroad.