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Sergei A. Alexandrovsky is a Russian poet and translator.

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Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev, also known as Bozhidar, was a Russian futurist poet of Ukrainian origin.

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Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin was a Soviet poet and a laureat of the USSR State Prize (1990), who is typically regarded as one of the Sixtiers.

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Semyon Petrovich Gudzenko was a Soviet Russian poet of Ukrainian-Jewish origin, of the World War II generation. He is often compared with Pavel Kogan and Semen Kirsanov.

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Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.

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Lyubov Makarivna Sirota is a Ukrainian poet, writer, playwright, journalist and translator. As a former inhabitant of the city of Pripyat and an eyewitness of the Chernobyl disaster, she has devoted a great part of her creative output to the 1986 catastrophe. She writes in both Ukrainian and Russian, and also translates from Ukrainian into Russian and vice versa. Her poems have been translated into many languages, including English.

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Nika Georgievna Turbina was a Russian poet. She became famous for her profound and emotional poems which she wrote at an early age.

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Hanna Hryhorivna Mashutina, known under her pseudonyms Anna Yablonskaya or Hanna Yablonska, was a Ukrainian playwright and poet, and one of the victims of the 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing.