Yuzef Printsev was born on January 5, 1922 in Yelisavetgrad [now Kirovohrad], Ukrainian SSR [now Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Evo Zvali Robert (1967), Oni byli pervymi (1956) and Za oblakami - nebo (1973). He died in 1989 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].