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Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born in Zima Junction, Siberia.
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Yevtushenko wrote his first poem at age 10.
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Yevtushenko got his poetry published for the first time by a sports journal when he was 16 years old.
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Yevtushenko attended the school from 1951 to 1954, but got expelled for "individualism."
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Yevtushenko's first book of poetry, "Prospects of The Future," was published when he was 19 years old.
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Nikita Krushchev became the leader. The period was time where Russians experienced more freedom, especially with art, music, television, travel, and writing. It was a process of De-Stalinization.
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Yevtushenko's most famous work was published in 1961.
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Yevtushenko gained early fame by speaking out against Stalin.
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Yevtushenko was featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
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A period in the Soviet Union's history when the country experienced negative economic, political and social effects. Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko. The suffering time contributed to the Soviet Union's decline.
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The time of restructuring the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. He tried to improve the country's socialism, but tensions kept their situation from improving.
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Long struggles of unification, economic crisis, and political unhappiness caused the destruction of the once superpower.
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Yevtushenko became a teacher for half the year at the University and still continues to teach there to this day.
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Yevtushenko receives a medal as "Defender of Free Russia" because of his efforts in resisting the Communist coup in August 1991.
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Chosen as Prime Minister in 2000, Vladimir Putin has remained in a spot of authority over Russia ever since. He became president in 2000 and stayed until his term was over in 2008. He went to back as Prime Minister, but took the presidency once again in 2012 where he has stayed to this day.
