Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Mikhalkov, Author of Soviet and Russian Anthem, Dead at 96

By Nabi Abdullaev
Sergei Mikhalkov, author of the lyrics of the Soviet and Russian national anthems and a Rolls-Royce of Soviet poetry for more than four decades, died Thursday in a Moscow hospital. He was 96.

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