Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born on 18 July 1933 in Zima, Irkutsk Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union. He was a Russian poet, prose writer, and documentary filmmaker, who was a major representative of the Khrushchev Thaw and an unofficial dissident during the Soviet era.
The Wordsmith's Journey: Unraveling Yevgeny Yevtushenko's Literary Legacy