Poet, prose writer.
Born April 22 (May 5), 1915, in Moscow. While studying at the pedagogical college, he began publishing in the Pioneer press. From 1932-34, he worked on the construction of the Moscow metro. In 1937, he graduated from the Literary Institute. Dolmatovsky's first book of lyric poetry was published in 1934.
From 1939 to 1945, Dolmatovsky served as a war correspondent in active units of the Soviet Army. In 1941, he was surrounded and captured, from which he escaped back to the front (these events are recounted in the story "Green Gate").
Dolmatovsky gained his greatest fame for the songs he wrote to his lyrics ("Officer's Waltz," "Song of the Dnieper," and "Volunteers" by Mark Fradkin, "Sormovskaya Lyrical" by Boris Mokrousov, "My Beloved" by Matvey Blanter, and "Beloved City" by Nikita Bogoslovsky), many of which were featured in popular films ("Fighters," "Meeting on the Elbe").
For his work, Yevgeny Dolmatovsky was awarded five orders and several other government awards. Laureate of the Stalin Prize, 3rd degree (1950, for the poem cycle "A Word about Tomorrow").
Dolmatovsky also worked as a literary critic (From the Life of Poetry, 1965; To Young Poets, 1981), translator, editor, and compiler.
