Борис Корнилов

(July 16 (29), 1907, village of Pokrovskoye, Nizhny Novgorod province — February 20, 1938, Leningrad) was a Soviet poet and public figure-Komsomol member, poet-songwriter, author of poems of the famous "Songs about the Counter". He was shot on February 20, 1938 as a member of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist organization. He was posthumously rehabilitated on January 5, 1957 "for lack of corpus delicti".