The article analyzes the work of a remarkable poet Ekaterina Dobrolyubova in the aspects of content and poetic form. She is from the Yurinsk District of the Republic Mari El. The life and work path of Ekaterina Dobrolyubova is divided into two periods – Yurinsk (with a short stay in Magnitogorsk) and Magnitogorsk (with constant visits in Yurino). The research investigated the temporary line of 1984. The challenge to understand the work of the poet in its integrity and completeness is interesting for us both in the local history aspect (keeping the memory of our wonderful poet), and theoretical. The main issue is: what does the poet gain after moving from a small village in a big industrial city, where there are several literary associations, society, seething with political and poetic passions, and several groups of poets of different aesthetic directions? The peculiarity of the poetry by Ekaterina is determined by the merger of naturalness of poet’s nature (the original sense of nature), and poetic culture, acquired through self-education and communication with the contemporary poets. Poetry of Ekaterina Dobrolyubova in the second half of the 1970s is a poetic maturity. Two trends became apparent in the poetry by Ekaterina Dobrolyubova to the turn of 1970–1980-ies. The first one is the people's optimistic trend. It is made out the second ideological and stylistic tendency in poetry Ekaterina Dobrolyubova – personal-elegiac, with an expression of their internal – often tragic – experience. Intonational wealth, bloom of rhymes, harmony of sounds, lexical diversity constitute the characteristics of a mature poetry by Ekaterina Dobrolyubova.