Boris Chirskov was born on August 23, 1904 in Sandata, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Die große Wende (1945), Barer neizvestnosti (1962) and Die Schwestern (1957). He died on June 22, 1966 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].