Yaropolk Lapshin was born on September 28, 1920 in Novomoskovsk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Ukrainian SSR [now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. Yaropolk was a director and writer, known for
Privalovskiye milliony (1973),
Ugryum-reka (1969) and
Pered rassvetom (1989). Yaropolk died on October 26, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.