Biography

Yaropolk Lapshin was born on September 28, 1920 in Novomoskovsk, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Ukrainian SSR [now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. Yaropolk was a director and writer, known for Privalovskiye milliony (1973), Ugryum-reka (1969) and Pered rassvetom (1989). Yaropolk died on October 26, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.