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- Birth nameGrigori Izrailevich Ofstein
- Grigori Gorin was born on March 12, 1940 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a writer and actor, known for 100 gramm dlya khrabrosti (1977), Tevye's Daughters (2017) and Barkhatnyy sezon (1979). He died on June 15, 2000 in Moscow, Russia.
- In 1966, first book was published - Four Under One Cover (co-authored).
- He was involved in amateur playwriting during his student years. First, with the sketches for the students' local KVN network club.
- In 1978 - 1990 Gorin was a regular participant in the Vokrug Smekha (Around Laughter), the popular TV program.
- His longest collaboration was with Mark Zakharov, director of the Lenkom Theater where most of his plays -- including ''Requiem'' and ''Royal Games'' -- were staged. When Gorin died he was working on his latest play, ''The Jester Balakirev,'' set in the time of Peter the Great.
- Many of Gorin's aphorisms became popular among the Soviet people, e. g. piano in the bushes, which means painstaking preparations for a would-be impromptu. This particular one appeared in a humoresque called Quite accidentally by Arkanov and Gorin, published in that 1966 book.
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