Boris Petrovich Kornilov (''russian: Бори́с Петро́вич Корни́лов'') (29 July 1907, in Pokrovskoye, Semyonovsky Uyezd,

Nizhny Novgorod Governorate The Nizhny Novgorod Governorate (Pre-reformed rus, Нижегородская губернія, r=Nizhegorodskaya guberniya, p=nʲɪʐɨɡɐˈrotskəjə ɡʊˈbʲernʲɪjə), was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empi ...

– 20 February 1938) was a

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. He is probably best known for penning the words to ''The Song of the Counterplan'' ('' Песня о встречном'') which was used to open the morning radio broadcast throughout the Soviet Union, even for years after its author perished during the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secret ...

. Kornilov was arrested on 19 March 1937, sentenced to death on 20 February 1938 and shot in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

the same day. Kornilov has been posthumously rehabilitated, and there is a museum and a statue dedicated to him in the town of Semyonov, near his birthplace. He was married to

Olga Bergholz Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz ( rus, Ольга Фёдоровна Берггольц, p=ˈolʲɡə ˈfʲɵdərəvnə bʲɪrˈɡolʲts, a=Ol'ga Fyodorovna Byerghol'cz.ru.vorb.oga; – November 13, 1975) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, playwri ...

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1907 births 1938 deaths People from Semyonov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast People from Semyonovsky Uyezd Soviet poets Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Russian male poets Russian lyricists Russian people executed by the Soviet Union Great Purge victims from Russia Soviet rehabilitations {{russia-poet-stub