- In 1966, first book was published - Four Under One Cover (co-authored).
- He was involved in amateur playwriting during his student years. First, with the sketches for the students' local KVN network club.
- In 1978 - 1990 Gorin was a regular participant in the Vokrug Smekha (Around Laughter), the popular TV program.
- His longest collaboration was with Mark Zakharov, director of the Lenkom Theater where most of his plays -- including ''Requiem'' and ''Royal Games'' -- were staged. When Gorin died he was working on his latest play, ''The Jester Balakirev,'' set in the time of Peter the Great.
- Many of Gorin's aphorisms became popular among the Soviet people, e. g. piano in the bushes, which means painstaking preparations for a would-be impromptu. This particular one appeared in a humoresque called Quite accidentally by Arkanov and Gorin, published in that 1966 book.
- After graduation from the Sechenov 1st Moscow Medical Institute in 1963, Gorin worked as an ambulance doctor for some time (his mother spent her medical career on similar position). In 1966 he and Arkady Arkanov wrote ''To All Europe,'' a comedy that was so successful that he gave up medicine.
- Gorin started publishing his satirical articles and sketches since 1960th, finally choosing writing as the professional career.
- He worked as a Chief of Humor Department in Yunost magazine, using Galka Galkina pen name.
- Gorin is particularly credited with scripts for several plays and films, which are regarded as important element of cultural reaction to the Era of Stagnation and perestroika in Soviet history.
- He was a Soviet and Russian playwright and writer of Jewish descent.
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