Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova (27 January 1932, Sevastopol, Crimean ASSR - 19 May 2008, Yudino, Moscow Oblast) was a Soviet and Russian poetess, translator, and author of many popular songs of the Soviet period and the 1990s.
Her father, Fyodor Lazarevich Kazakov (1899-1967), was a military officer, and her mother, Sofia Alexandrovna Shulman (1905-1987), worked as a secretary-machinist. The name given by her parents means "Revolution, Electrification, World October". At the age of 20 she to...