Mikhail Aleksandrovich Dudin (Russian: Михаил Александрович Дудин; 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1916 – 31 December 1993) was a Russian Soviet prose writer, poet, translator and journalist, war correspondent. Public figure, screenwriter, author of lyrics and over 70 books of poetry. Hero of Socialist Labor (1976), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1981).[1]