Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky (Russian: Евге́ний Аро́нович Долмато́вский) (5 May 1915 - 10 September 1994) was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist. Dolmatovsky was born in 1915 in Moscow into a family of lawyers. While he studied at Teachers College, he began to be published in the Pioneer Press. In 1932-1934 he worked at the construction of the Moscow metro. In 1937 he graduated from the Literary Institute. The first book of lyrical poems Dolmatovsky was published in 1934. He won the Stalin Prize in 1950.