Alexander Gitovich

Alexander Ilyich Gitovich (; 1 March 1909 — 9 August 1966) was a Soviet Russian poet and translator of Chinese and Korean poetry (Li Bai, Du Fu, Mao Zedong and others).

Gitovich was born in Smolensk and studied at Leningrad State University. He participated to the Great Patriotic War. He died in Komarovo, Saint Petersburg, and was buried there, not far from his friend Anna Akhmatova's grave.

Works Мы входим в Пишпек, 1931 Фронтовые стихи, 1943 Стихи военного корреспондента, 1947 Стихи о Корее, 1950 Под звездами Азии, 1955 Пиры в Армении, 1968 Мы видели Корею, 1948 (в соавторстве с Б.Бурсовым)