Nikolay Budashkin was born on August 6, 1910 in village Lyubakhovka, Mosalsk uyezd, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mosalsky District, Kaluga Oblast, Russia]. He was a composer, known for Feuer, Wasser und Posaunen (1968), Svadba s pridanym (1953) and Smertnyy vrag (1972). He died on January 31, 1988 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].