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Stepan Petrovich Schipachev (russian: Степа́н Петро́вич Щипачёв; 7 January 1898 – 1 January 1980) was a Russian
Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
poet. He is best known for the
poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...
''Lines of Love'' and poetry collections ''Musings'' (1962), ''A Man's Hand'' (1964), and ''Selected Works'' (1965). He was engaged in literary activity from 1919, after he became a member of the
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. He has published more than 20 poetry collections. Many of his verses were published in the periodical press. His themes include reflection on nature and on romantic love, however he was primarily known for his lyrics on social subjects (what in Russian poetical tradition is called ''гражданская лирика''). Schipachev was a member of the board of the
Union of Soviet Writers The Union of Soviet Writers, USSR Union of Writers, or Soviet Union of Writers (russian: Союз писателей СССР, translit=Soyuz Sovetstikh Pisatelei) was a creative union of professional writers in the Soviet Union. It was founded ...
and head of its poets section. Poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko ( rus, links=no, 1=Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, ...
claims that in 1960 Shchipachev actively opposed the ban for Yevtushenko travelling abroad. Shchipachev signed a famous letter from a group of Soviet writers that was published in
Pravda ''Pravda'' ( rus, Правда, p=ˈpravdə, a=Ru-правда.ogg, "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the co ...
on August 31, 1973, in which they condemned writer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repress ...
and nuclear physicist
Andrei Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for nu ...
. He was buried at the
Kuntsevo Cemetery The Kuntsevo Cemetery (russian: Ку́нцевское кла́дбище, kúntsevkoye kládbishche) is a cemetery servicing Kuntsevo, Moscow. It is located on the bank of the Setun River, to the south of the Mozhaisk Highway (the continuation o ...
. The Literary Museum of Stepan Shchipachev was established in 1993, dedicated to life and works of the Soviet poet.


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List of Stepan Shchipachev's works
1898 births 1980 deaths Russian male poets 20th-century Russian poets Recipients of the Order of Lenin Stalin Prize winners Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery {{Russia-poet-stub Institute of Red Professors alumni Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples