A Russian writer whose plays are in the history of Soviet and Russian theatrical art. He was born in 1913 in the city of Yaroslavl. Because of a rebellion his family was forced to move to Kostroma in the early twenties. He entered the technical school in Kostroma in 1934 and realized that he wanted to connect his life with theatre. When the war began in 1941, he was discharged from the army as a result of serious injuries. In the following years, he returned to Moscow. He founded a theater for children and youth, and worked in the railway workers' theater as a director and actor. His plays were very popular, and his most important works were: The Cranes Are Flying in 1957 and Shumney den in 1961. He died in 2004 in Moscow at the age of 91.