Aleksey Balabanov was born on February 25, 1959 in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Ekaterinburg, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Brother (1997), Cargo 200 (2007) and Of Freaks and Men (1998). He was married to Irina ? and Nadezhda Vasileva. He died on May 18, 2013 in Solnechnoye, Leningradskaya oblast, Russia.
He had two sons. He and his first wife, Irina, had one son, Fyodor, who was born in 1990. And he and his second wife, Russian costume designer Nadezhda Vasileva, had one son, Pyotr, who was born in 1995.