Yuli Edlis was born on July 3, 1929 in Bender, Romania [now Tighina, Moldova]. He was a writer, known for Svoy paren (1974), Zhazhda nad ruchyom (1968) and Gde je Avelj, brat tvoj (1966). He died on November 30, 2009 in Peredelkino, Moscow province, Russia.