Yevgeny Dolmatovsky

Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky in 1954

Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky (Russian: Евге́ний Аро́нович Долмато́вский), May 5, 1915 – September 10, 1994 was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. He was born and died in Moscow.

Examples of his songs

• Ballad of the Siberian Land (music by Nikolai Nikolayevich Kryukov) - 1947

The theme song of the film, Ballad of Siberia

• Yearning for the Motherland (in Russian: Тоска по родине, music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Opus 86) - 1948

The theme song of the film, Encounter at the Elbe

• Song of the Forests （music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Opus 81） - 1949
  • The Pioneers Plant Trees
• The Motherland Listens (in Russian: Родина слышит, music by Dmitri Shostakovich) - 1951

This song is from "Four Songs on Verses by Dolmatovsky, for Voice, Wordless Chorus & Piano, Opus 86 (1951). It is well known in Russia that Yuri Gagarin was singing this song while circling the earth as the first man in space.

• And On Mars There Will Be Apple Blossoms (in Russian: И на Марсе будут яблони цвести, music by Vano Muradeli) - 1963

A Soviet cosmonaut song singing about the dream of space travel, and eventual colonisation of Mars, in which apple trees may grow.

See also

• Encounter at the Elbe
• Song of the Forests
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• List of Russian poets