Alexander Timofeevskiy

{{Short description|Russian writer, poet, songwriter, and screenwriter (1933–2022)}}

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| name = Alexander Timofeevskiy

| image = Александр_Тимофеевский.jpg

| native_name = Александр Павлович Тимофеевский

| native_name_lang = ru

| birth_name = Alexander Pavlovich Timofeevskiy

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|11|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|01|07|1933|11|13|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

| other_names = Aleksandr Timofeevskiĭ, Aleksandr Timofeyevsky

| occupation = Writer

}}

Alexander Pavlovich Timofeevskiy ({{langx|ru|Александр Павлович Тимофеевский}}; 13 November 1933 – 7 January 2022) was a Russian writer, poet, songwriter and screenwriter.

Life and career

Born in Moscow, at young age Timofeevskiy lived in Stalingrad, being there during the World War II when the German army besieged the city.{{cite news |title=Умер автор "Песенки крокодила Гены" Александр Тимофеевский |url=https://yandex.eu/turbo/intermedia.ru/s/news/366049 |access-date=16 January 2022 |work=InterMedia |date=7 January 2022 |language=ru}} After the war he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and was enrolled in the scriptwriting department of the animation film studio Soyuzmultfilm.

In addition to his cinema works, Timofeevskiy wrote dozens of collections of poems, adult and children's books, radio plays and songs, notably the popular children's song "Песенка крокодила Гены" ("Gena the Crocodile's Song"). In 2020, he was awarded the {{Interlanguage link|Na Blago Mira Prize|ru|Премия «На Благо Мира»}} for his book Кулинария эпохи застолья ("Culinary Age of the Tableau Era"). He died in Moscow on 7 January 2022, at the age of 88.{{cite news |title=Умер написавший "Песенку крокодила Гены" поэт Александр Тимофеевский |url=https://www.rbc.ru/society/07/01/2022/61d81d389a7947c9c6fb26d5 |access-date=16 January 2022 |work=Rbc.ru |date=7 January 2022 |language=ru}}