Aleksandr Volodin (playwright)

{{Short description|Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet}}

{{family name hatnote|Moiseyevich|Volodin|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox person

| image = Александр Володин в 1989 году.jpg

| birth_name = Aleksandr Moiseyevich Lifschitz

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|02|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Minsk, Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|12|17|1919|02|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia

| resting_place = Komarovskoye Cemetery, Saint Petersburg

}}

Aleksandr Moiseyevich Volodin ({{langx |ru|Александр Моисеевич Володин}}; 1919 – 2001), born Lifschitz,{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=167}} was a Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet. His first play was The Factory Girl (1956).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mx5lCgAAQBAJ&dq=+Volodin&pg=PA492|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater. Historical Dictionaries of the Arts|page=505|last=Senelick|first=Laurence|publisher=Rowman / Littlefield|date=2015|isbn=9781442249271}} His most famous plays were Five Evenings (1959), My Elder Sister and some others. In addition, he created the script for the film Autumn Marathon (1979) by director Georgy Daneliya.{{cite journal |last=Gushanskaya |first=Yelena |title=Playwright Aleksandr Volodin: Reflections on the Occasion of His Birthday |journal=Social Sciences |volume=45 |pages=49–62 |location=Minneapolis-Moscow |year=2014 |url=https://www.hse.ru/mirror/pubs/lib/data/access/ram/ticket/63/151252951084f68ac0f483313433b0990437ca3cb4/ss4-2014.pdf}}