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The main themes of her early poetry were the heroism of the Soviet people during industrialization ( Year of birth, 1938 ; Railroad, 1939 ; Stones and grass, 1940 ) and during World War II ( Lyrics, 1943 ).

Her most famous poem is " Zoya " ( 1942 ), about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a young girl killed by Nazis.

This work was one of the most popular poems during the Soviet era.

From 1940 to 1950, the poetry of Aliger was characterised by a mix of optimistic semi-official verses (" Leninskie mountains ", 1953 ), and poems in which Aliger tried to analyse the situation in her country in a realistic way (" Your Victory ", 1944-1945 ).

Aliger wrote numerous essays and articles about Russian literature and her impressions on travelling (" On poetry and poets ", 1980 ; " The return from Chile ", 1966 ).