Nikolay Mikhaylovich Rubtsov (russian: link=no, Николай Михайлович Рубцов; 3 January 1936,

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) was a Russian poet. Rubtsov was killed on the night of 19 January 1971, at the age of 35, in his apartment, the result of a domestic dispute with an aspiring poet Lyudmyla Derbina. The judicial investigation established that the death was violent, occurred as a result of suffocationmechanical asphyxia from squeezing the neck with her hands. Asteroid 4286 Rubtsov was named after him.

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