Poetic Obituaries: [Sergey Kozlov] started writing poetry

as a schoolboy, and later graduated Literature Institute as a poet. Before becoming a professional writer, he worked for several years as a turner, a singing teacher, a guide in Pushkin's Museum Mikhailovsko, a printer, and even a stoker.

The poet started writing fairy tales in the 1960s, when he came up with adventures of the Hedgehog and the Bear, who were later featured in the prize-winning animation Hedgehog in the Fog by Yuriy Norshteyn.

from Russia-IC: Famous Writer of Fairy Tales Passes Away in Moscow

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