In 1961 he wrote what would become perhaps his most famous poem, Babiyy Yar, in which he denounced the Soviet distortion of historical fact regarding the Nazi massacre of the Jewish population of Kiev in September 1941, as well as the anti-Semitism still widespread in the Soviet Union.
En 1961 escribiu un dos seus máis famosos poemas, Babi Yar, no que denunciou a distorsión soviética dos feitos históricos con relación á masacre nazi da poboación xudía de Kiev en setembro 1941, así como o antisemitismo aínda común na Unión Soviética.