Nadezhda Kozhushanaya

Born 15 March 1952 in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

Died 15 January 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".