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1933
Born in Moscow, spent much of his youth in town of Vladimir
1941-4
Lives with mother in Kurgan (Urals)
1957
Graduates from Moscow Institute of Architecture; Pasternak
encourages him to pursue writing
1958
Gives poetry reading with Evtushenko in Lenin Stadium
1959
Receives attention for first published verses "Masters"
and "Goya"
1960
Publishes first collections Parabola and Mosaic,
in which all his poetic tropes are evident - polymetric
lines, graphic verse, inappropriate rhymes and odd metaphors
1962
Publishes collection 40 Lyric Digressions from the Poem
"Triangular Pear"
1963
Khrushchev denounces him as "bourgeois formalist"
1964
Publishes collection Antiworlds
1966
Publishes Heart of Achilles
1967
Becomes a member of the Praesidium of the USSR Writers Union
1970
Publishes Shadow of Sound
1972
Publishes the prose poetry A Look
1975
Publishes Violoncello Oak Leaf
1979
Awarded the State Prize for Poetry; participates in official
literary almanac Metropol
1983
Three volume collection of his works appears in Soviet Union
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