Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin (Евгений Германович Водолазкин) is a Russian-Ukrainian scholar and author.

[3] In the same year, he entered graduate school at the Pushkin House in the department of Old Russian literature under Dmitry Likhachov.

[2] Though he is private about his childhood, he attended a school that focused on both Ukrainian and English languages, from which he graduated in 1981.

[10] He went on to attend Kiev University, where he studied philology,[11] and the Pushkin House (known at the time as the Institute of Russian Literature).

[10] The Pushkin House is where Vodolazkin met his wife, Tatiana Robertovna Rudi.