Viktor Astafyev

Writer

Date of birth : 05/01/1924

Date of death : 11/29/2001

City of birth : Ovsyanka, Krasnoyarsk Uyezd, Yeniseysk Governorate, RSFSR, USSR [now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia]

Viktor Astafyev was born on May 1, 1924 in Ovsyanka, Krasnoyarsk Uyezd, Yeniseysk Governorate, RSFSR, USSR [now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Tayozhnaya povest (1979), Zvezdopad (1981) and Dvazhdy rozhdyonnyy (1984). He was married to Maria Semenowna Koryakina. He died on November 29, 2001 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.