Vasily Lebedev-Kumach

Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach (Васи́лий Ива́нович Ле́бедев-Кума́ч) Moscow, 5 August 1898 &mdash; 20 February 1949) was a Soviet Russian poet and lyricist.

He wrote numerous songs, the most famous being probably Священная война (Svyaschennaya Voyna, 'The Sacred War'), Песня о Родине (A Song About Motherland) and Как много девушек хороших (Such a lot of nice girls!), later immortalized as the Argentine Tango song Serdtse (Сердце-Heart) by Pyotr Leshchenko.