Writing · Writer · Lyricist
Born Jun 1, 1920 · Moscow, RSFSR [now Russia]
Active 1972–1190 · Awards: USSR State Prize, Order of the Red Star, Medal "For Battle Merit", Medal "For Courage", Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Friendship of Peoples, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
David Samuilovich Samoylov was one of the most notable representatives of the War generation of Russian poets and neo-Acmeist poetry.