YUriy Polikarpovich Kuznetsov (1941 - 2003) - russkiy poet, perevodchik i literaturnyy kritik, redaktor, pedagog, professor Literaturnogo instituta, chlen Soyuza pisateley SSSR. Ego poeticheskiy yazyk, oschuschenie tragicheskogo raskola sovremennogo mira i yarkoe vospriyatie russkoy kultury i natsionalnogo haraktera porozhdali mnogo sporov i vyzyvali nepoddelnyy interes ochen raznyh chitateley. V ego masshtabnyh proizvedeniyah stalkivayutsya problemy dobra i zla, mifologii i realnosti, voyny i mira, lyubvi i very. Byl nagrazhdyon Gosudarstvennoy premiey RSFSR v oblasti literatury, ordenom «Znak Pochyota» i drugimi
