Andrey Dementyev (b. 1928) - poet. Born July 16, 1928 in Tver. The first published poem is to the Student (1948). He graduated from the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky (1952). From 1953 he was an employee of the Kalininskaya Pravda newspaper, in 1955-1958 he was the head of the Komsomol life department of the Kalinin newspaper Smena, and in 1967-1972 (with a short break) he was an employee of the Komsomol Central Committee. Since 1972, editor, in 1981-1992 - editor-in-chief of the Yunost magazine, which continued the liberal-opposition line of publication, begun during the thaw by its former editor-in-chief V.P. Kataev. Since the 1990s, lives in Israel.