He then attended Moscow Conservatory and in 1955, a year before graduating, he won the gold medal at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw.
In July 1985 the union sent two students from the peace group to Moscow to take part in the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students.
In 1957, Semen became a laureate of the All-Union competition, afterwards winning a bronze medal at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
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The main events of the World Festival of Youth and Students were also held in this stadium in 1949.
He is famous for his lyric poems many of which became lyrics of the popular songs: "School Walz", "In the Damp Earth-Huts", "The Sacred Stone", "The Windows of Moscow", "Don't Forget" and "Moscow Nights" which was sung at the Moscow Youth Festival in 1957 and was played also by American pianist Van Cliburn in the White House in 1979, on the occasion of a visit by the former president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS) was held in 1955, in Warsaw, the capital of the then People's Republic of Poland.