Yuz Aleshkovsky was born on September 21, 1929 in Krasnoyarsk, USSR. He was a writer, known for Was ist los mit dir? (1975), Kysh i Dvaportfelya (1974) and Avariynoye polozheniye (1973). He was married to Irina Feliksovna Aleshkovskaya and Irina Dmitrievna Nikiforova. He died on March 21, 2022 in Tampa, Florida, USA.