His father Ivan Vasilyevich Yezhov came from the Belye Kolodezi village (now Ozyorsky District, Moscow Oblast).
Shortly before the Great Patriotic War he enrolled into the School for Junior Airmen (known simply as ShMAS), then fought at the Russian Far East as part of the naval aviation forces.
Along with Rustam Ibragimbekov he co-wrote a screenplay that was later made into a 1970 Ostern movie White Sun of the Desert by Vladimir Motyl.
It turned into one of the box office leaders with 34.5 million viewers and quickly gained a cult status despite lacking any awards or attention from critics.
The movie was shown at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival where it received a lot of praise and eventually won the Grand Prix award.
In addition to his screenwriting career, Yezhov also wrote several theatrical plays (Nightingale Night, Alyosha, Gunfire Beyond the Dunes), worked as a professor and educator at VGIK.
[2] In later years Yezhov worked with Sergei Bondarchuk on the Red Bells dilogy, Ion Popescu-Gopo on the sequel to his Maria, Mirabela fairy tale and other Soviet and foreign film directors.
Full Version[10] which they hoped to make into a movie or TV series, but apparently this never happened despite the efforts made by Ibragimbekov after his friend's death.