His father Ivan Ivanovich (Yanovich) Valutsky moved from Poland to Moscow at the beginning of the World War I along with his own mother Maria Ivanovna Valutskaya and his brother Stefan.
[1] Valutsky started practicing screenwriting during his school days as he and his friends were watching many trophy films captured during the war.
Same year he and several other students were expelled from the institute following a grand scandal: it was revealed they had written a parody on a revolutionary drama play that featured Vladimir Lenin.
After graduating he got acquainted with Vitaly Melnikov, also a young director who was searching for a screenwriter for his feature comedy debut.
The Head of Chukotka was produced in 1966 and released to a mild success (15.7 million viewers[3]), yet it gave a great push to the career of the popular comedy actor Mikhail Kononov.
In four years they made another comedy film — Seven Brides of Yefreytor Zbruev that turned into one of the box office leaders of 1971 (11th place with 31.2 million viewers[4]).
His most famous work of this time period was a biographical war drama Admiral (2008) about the fate of Alexander Kolchak.