Three poets passed away at once: Shamshad Abdullaev, Vladimir Mikushevich and Arkady Shtypel. There is something in common in their poems, despite seemingly different poetic traditions Shamshat Abdullaev, Arkady Shtypel, Vladimir Mikushevich. Photo: piotrovsky.store, Wikipedia, seance.ru Three poets, whose heyday began in the nineties, have left. And it’s hard not to see a sad pattern in this: now it seems that the last attempt to maintain a cultural space based on one language has failed.