Portrait of Leonid Likhodeev — courtesy of the web-site kino-teatr.ru (accessed: July 16, 2019).
Leonid Likhodeev
, 1921 - 1994
Leonid Likhodeev (Леонид Лиходеев), real name Lides (Лидес), was a writer, poet, screen-writer, satirist and journalist of Jewish origin. WW2 veteran. He was born in Yuzovka (Donetsk), and studied at the University of Odessa (1941) and at the M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow (1952). He wrote for many literary journals, TV and cinema, including popular stories for children and young adults.
Sources:
Profile at lixodeev.ru (accessed July 16, 2019)
Profile at donjetsk-jewish.ucoz.ru (accessed July 16, 2019)
Profile at animator.ru (accessed July 16, 2019)
Profile at kino-teatr.ru (accessed July 16, 2019)
Bio prepared by Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw, hannapa@al.uw.edu.pl
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