War generation of Russian poets

War Generation is a name applied to the young Russian poets whose youth was spent fighting in World War II and whose best poems reflect upon wartime experiences. Some of them actually died during the German-Soviet War; others lived to an advanced age but, as Semyon Gudzenko predicted, died not from old age but from old wounds.

Notable poets
Semyon Gudzenko
Semen Kirsanov
Mikhaïl Kultchitsky
Pavel Kogan
David Samoylov
Boris Slutsky
Arseniy Tarkovsky
Iosif Utkin
Konstantin Simonov 
Ilya Ehrenburg
Iona Degen

Category:20th-century Russian poets
Category:Soviet poets