Evgeny Isaakovich Kliachkin (Russian: Евгений Клячкин; March 23, 1934 in Leningrad, USSR – July 30, 1994 in Israel) was a Soviet and Russian bard, singer, and composer.
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Kliachkin graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Building Institute in 1957 and began working as an engineer at various building organizations in Leningrad.
He began to compose songs in 1961. At first his songs were based upon other poets' lyrics, but he soon began to write his own as well, accompanying himself on a Russian seven-stringed guitar.
In total, Evgeny Kliachkin composed more than 300 songs, 70 of them set to other poets' lyrics. In 1990, Evgeny Kliachkin emigrated to Israel with his family. He gave concerts in Israel and in the USA. In 1994, he toured in Russia.
His songs "Don't look back", "A song about the morning city", "Pskov", "Child's picture", "Coming back", "Wet waltz", "To my contemporaries" are some of his more notable songs.