Yuri Levitansky, Soviet and Russian poet and translator, one of the most subtle lyricists of the twentieth century, was born in 1922 in Ukraine. After graduation, he entered the then famous IFLI - Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History. From the second year he went to the front as a volunteer, participated in the defense of Moscow, and since 1943 he has been regularly published in front-line newspapers. In the post-war period, he published several poetry collections and was engaged in translations. Many of Levitansky's poems - "watercolors of emotional experiences" (M. Lukonin) - were set to music and became songs, including the famous "Dialogue at the Christmas Tree", which sounded in the film "Moscow does not believe in tears". The turning point in the poet's work was the book of poems "Cinema" (1970), included in this edition, which brought the author great fame. Like the subsequent collections "Such-and-Such a Day" (1976) and "Letters to Katerina, or A Walk with Faust" (1981), "Cinema" was written as a single work built according to the laws of musical composition. The present edition is completed by works from the book "White Poems" (1991), created in the last years of his life and recognized as one of the peaks of Yuri Levitansky's creativity.