Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a Russian Soviet-era poet who found a large following in the West in the 1960s, died on Saturday of heart failure in the United States at the age of 84, Russian news agency RIA Novosti said.
"He died peacefully a few minutes ago, surrounded by his loved ones," the agency quoted his wife, Maria Novikova, as saying.
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Russian Soviet-era poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko died of a cardiac arrest on Saturday in Oklahoma, the United States, at the age of 84, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Yevtushenko's wife told the news agency Friday that the poet had been hospitalized in serious condition and the doctors were conducting medical examinations.
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