Okujava Bulat

Okujava Bulat ( 1924-1997), Poet, bard, composer and performer of lyrical songs, Georgian by origin. He was born in Moscow. B. Okujava participated in WW II. His literary carrier began in 1953. He was the author of several collections of poetry: Islands (1959), Sunlight Spot (1964), Merry Drummer (1964), Generous March (1967), Arbat, My Arbat! (1976). B. Okujava has written songs, historical and satirical prose, screenplays and stories.. He was very popular in Russia. He translated into the Russian poems of contemporary Georgian poets; he wrote a well-known novel Dilettante’s Travels To The Caucasus.

B. Okujava died in Paris; he was buried at Vagankovskoe Cemetery in Moscow. Okudjava’s statue is erected on Arbat Street, in Downtown Moscow (author G. Frangulian).