“The poet, philologist, head of the poetry department of the magazine“ Youth ”(in 2007-2019 - the editor-in-chief of“ Youth ”) Valery Fedorovich Dudarev left at the 55th year of his life,” the message said.

Dudarev was a laureate of literary prizes named after Alexander Nevsky and Sergey Yesenin.

His poems are published in English, Bulgarian and Polish.

In September, the writer Vyacheslav Petsuh died.