Valentin Rasputin was born on March 15, 1937 in village Atalanka, Ust-Udinsky District, East Siberian Oblast, RSFSR, USSR as Valentin Grigorievitch Rasputin. He was a writer, known for Zhivi i pomni (2008), Proshchanie (1983) and Uroki frantsuzkogo (1978). He was married to Svetlana. He died on March 14, 2015 in Moscow, Russia.