Semyon Gudzenko

Semyon Petrovich Gudzenko (Russian: Семён Петрович Гудзенко) (born Sario Gudzenko; 3 May 1922 in Kyiv – 2 December 1953 in Moscow) 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.

He died from old war wounds as he himself predicted in one of his own poems.