Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasily Lebedev-Kumach

Russian poet and lyricist

Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1898

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1949

Profession: writer, poet, politician, musician, songwriter, lyricist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach (Russian: ????´??? ???´????? ??´?????-????´?) Moscow, 5 August [O.S.
24 July] 1898 — 20 February 1949) was a Soviet poet and lyricist. Vasily was the son of shoe maker.
He went on to work in the print department of the Revolutionary Military Council, moving on to ROSTO.
He attended Moscow State University.
He adopted the nickname Kumach, a name for a variety of red cloth used to symbolize revolution.
In time the nickname was added to his surname.His satirical verses published in such papers as Rabochaia gazeta, Krest’ianskaia gazeta, Gudok, and Krokodil led to his growing popularity.
He also wrote songs for the film Late for a Date (1936). He wrote numerous songs, the most famous being probably ????????? ????? (Svyaschennaya Voyna, 'The Sacred War'), ????? ? ?????? (A Song About the Motherland), ???? ?????? ??????????? (Hymn of the Bolshevik Party) and ??? ????? ??????? ??????? (Such a lot of nice girls!), later immortalized as the Argentine Tango song Serdtse (??????-Heart) by Pyotr Leshchenko.
He worked closely with the composer Isaak Dunayevsky. He was also one of the first persons to use the term blat (????) in print, when Krokodil published the poem Blat-not.