Hamid Olimjon
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Hamid Olimjon was an Uzbek poet, playwright, scholar, and literary translator of the Soviet period. Hamid Olimjon is regarded as one of the finest 20th‑century Uzbek poets. The Uzbek Soviet Encycloped
Statue of the renowned Uzbek poets Zulfiya (left) and Hamid Olimjon (right)
Konstantin Simonov
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Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov, was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent, arguably most famous for his 1941 poem "Wait for Me".
Hamid Olimjon
…to writing his own poetry, Hamid Olimjon translated the works of many celebrated foreign authors, such as Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Serafimovich, Konstantin Simonov, Leo Tolstoy, Lord Byron, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Lermontov, Mikhail Svetlov, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Oleksandr Korniychuk, Pavlo Tychyna, Taras Shevchenko…
Simonov in Berlin in 1967
Konstantin Simonov (center) and Ilya Vlasenko (right) during Battle of Kursk, 1943
Memorial stone dedicated to the memory of Konstantin Simonov, erected on Buinichi field, near Mogilev