Valentin Rasputin was born on March 15, 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 March 14, 2015 in Moscow, Russia.