S. A. Yesenin and Yu. Ya. Yakovlev

Yu. Ya. Yakovlev was a writer, screenwriter and author of books for children and teenagers. He was born in Leningrad in 1922 and began with poems as a boy. Called up in 1940, he was in the war a military correspondent of the newspaper «Тревога». He graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in 1952; his first children’s book «Наш адрес» appeared in 1949. He wrote scripts for films such as «Умка», «Умка ищет друга» and «Зимородок». His main themes are war, the memory of heroes, search parties, school life, friendship between man and animal, and gratitude to a teacher. His heroes are real people who love and cannot bear injustice or deceit. Yakovlev died in St Petersburg in 1996.