Bulat Okudzhava Statue

Bulat Okudzhava was a poet-turned-songwriter who lived and often performed on the Arbat in the 1960s. He inspired a whole movement of liberal-thinking poets to take their ideas to the streets, including Vladimir Vysotsky and others.

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