Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (18 July 1932 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several movies. 
In 1961, he wrote a poem "Babi Yar" describing mass murder of the Holocaust at Babi Yar during World War II.
Yevtushenko died of heart failure after having kidney surgery at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 1 April 2017, aged 84.