Arkady Iosifovich Vaksberg (Russian:Аркадий Иосифович Ваксберг) (11 November 1927 – 8 May 2011) was a Soviet and Russian lawyer, investigative journalist, writer on historical subjects, film maker and playwright.
[1][2] Vaksberg was born in Novosibirsk in 1927 (some sources give 1933).
He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow State University in 1952.
That same year he began working as a journalist at Literaturnaya gazeta.
He was the author of many books, some of which have been translated into English.