Aleksandr Volodin (playwright)

Aleksandr Volodin
Born
Aleksandr Moiseyevich Lifschitz

(1919-02-10)10 February 1919
Died17 December 2001(2001-12-17) (aged 82)
Resting placeKomarovskoye Cemetery, Saint Petersburg

Aleksandr Moiseyevich Volodin (Russian: Александр Моисеевич Володин; 1919 – 2001), born Lifschitz, was a Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet. His first play was The Factory Girl (1956). His most famous plays were Five Evenings (1959), My Elder Sister and some others. In addition, he created the script for the film Autumn Marathon (1979) by director Georgy Daneliya.