Nadezhda Kozhushanaya

Born in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR on March 15, 1952 — died January 15, 1997 (aged 44)

Nadezhda Kozhushanaya was a Soviet, Russian screenwriter and writer. She was a philologist and a musician by education, a playwright by vocation. Nadezhda said: "I live and write with love to my crazy time". Although she died at the age of 44, she was referred to as "The most gifted screenwriter of the perestroika epoch".