Almaty Jewish Library held for its visitors a recital with a Snt-Petersburg poet Florina Maevskaya. Florina Abramovna started to write her poems eight years ago. Having survived in a Leningrad blockade and later working in geological expeditions, including in the Far North for many years, the woman could find strength and desire to tell the world about her impressions and thoughts.

   In the last years a collection of her poems called "Leningrad" was put to music by composers, Florina's comrades. Among the most famous works by Maevskaya are poems from the collection "Compose music and sing!". Listeners especially liked poems, devoted to a new century in accordance with a famous saying "Oh, if only youth knew".

   Works of the poet couldn't leave indifferent Jewish community of Almaty. Members of "Retro" vocal instrumental group, successfully working in a city Hesed, decided to fill its repertoire with songs, put on poems by Florina Abramovna.

Svetlana Nezhinskaya