8 December] 1900 – 28 February 1951) was a Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist.

During World War I he enrolled in Baltic Fleet as sea cadet.

He participated in the militant rebellion in Petrograd in 1917, in battles of the Russian Civil War as a machine gunner in the 1st Cavalry Army; he worked as political agitator attached to the Black Sea and Baltic fronts.

Later he became an editor of Krasnoflotets (Russian: Краснофлотец, "Red Fleet sailor") magazine.

In 1929 his play The First Horse Army, which celebrated Marshal Semyon Budyonny's Rostov campaign during the civil war, was published.