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Kobzev Yuri Mikhailovich (1947-1975) – journalist, poet

He was born on February 18, 1947 in Shemonaiha, East Kazakhstan region. He graduated from school with a gold medal in 1966, in the same year he joined the editorial office of the district newspaper "Leninskoe Znamya" and the correspondence department at KazGU named after S.M. Kirov (now KazNU named after Al-Farabi), which he successfully graduated in 1972. As a student, he joined the Union of Journalists of the USSR. He worked in the editorial office of the district newspaper "Leninskoe Znamya" in the information department, then, since 1970, headed the industrial department of the editorial office, and since January 1972 - deputy editor of the newspaper "Leninskoe Znamya". Readers were looking forward to every article by Yuri Mikhailovich in the newspaper, because they were bright, imaginative, sometimes with warm irony or with caustic humor. While still a schoolboy, he began to write poems, they were often printed in the newspaper, his graduation essay was in the poems, and he even tried to rhyme the periodic table. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, they were pure, transparent, like a spring spring, poems. They captivated with their simplicity and significance. Many of the poems are set to music by Nelly Rau and other musicians. Kobzev was an active member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. 

He died on December 9, 1975 from a serious long-term illness at the age of 28.

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Кобзев Ю.М. [Электронный ресурс] [биография] // официальный сайт Шемонаихинской центральной районной библиотеки - Режим доступа http://shemlibrary.kz/index.php/novosti/8-shemonaikha-literaturnaya/12-kobzev-yurij-mikhajlovich