Valentin Rasputin(1937-2015)
- Writer
Valentin Rasputin was born on 15 March 1937 in village Atalanka, Ust-Udinsky District, East Siberian Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Irkutsk Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Osobyy sluchay (1983), Vasiliy i Vasilisa (1981) and Farewell (1983). He was married to Svetlana. He died on 14 March 2015 in Moscow, Russia.