| Yevgeny Yevtushenko AKA Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Born: 18-Jul-1933 Birthplace: Zima, Irkutsk, Russia
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Poet Nationality: Russia Executive summary: Babi Yar Prominent poet during the Soviet era. His poem Babi Yar, condemning a 1941 massacre in Kiev perpetrated by Nazis, was later used by Dmitri Shostakovich in his Symphony No. 13. Wife: Bella Akhmadulina (m. 1954, div.) Wife: Galina Semyonova (m. 1962, div.) Wife: Jan Butler (m. 1978, div.) Wife: Maria Novika (m. 1986, two children)
University: Gorky Institute of Literature, Moscow, USSR (1951-54) Teacher: Russian and European Poetry and Film, University of Tulsa, OK
Ukrainian Ancestry
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1987
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR I Am Curious (Yellow) (9-Oct-1967) · Himself
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