Leonid Petrovich Derbenyov (Russian: ?????´? ?????´??? ????????, IPA: [l???'n?it p??'trov??t? d??rb??'n??f] (listen); April 12, 1931 – June 22, 1995) was a Russian poet and lyricist widely regarded as one of the stalwarts of the 20th century Soviet and Russian pop music.