Education
She graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University.
She graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University.
She was known as an author of many popular songs of the Soviet era. She worked as a lecturer in Khabarovsk. Her first rhymes were reminiscent of Yevtushenko, Okudzhava, Voznesensky and Rozhdestvensky and were first published in 1955.
Her first poetry collection, Let"s Meet in the East («Встретимся на Востоке»), was published in 1958.
She also held the position of First Secretary of the Moscow Union of Writers. In October 1993, she signed the Letter of Forty-Two.
She died suddenly at age 76 at a medical sanatorium near Perkhushkovo on May 19, 2008 at 1pm. She was buried on May 22, 2008 at Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.
Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland 4th class Order of the Red Banner of Labour (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) Order of Friendship of Peoples (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il"ich Lenin" (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) Medal "Foreign Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) Commemorative Medal "The great Russian writer, Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov 1905-2005".
Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland 4th class.
From 1959 until her death, she was a member of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.
