Mikhail Ancharov

Biography Mikhail Ancharov was born in Moscow on 28 March 1923 to Leonid Mikhailovich Ancharov, a design engineer from Kharkiv, and his wife Yevgenia Isaevna Ancharova, a native of Nizhyn. In 1941, Mikhail Ancharov studied at the Architectural Institute and then enlisted in the Red Army as a member of the airborne troops. During World War II, he was enrolled in the Military Institute of Foreign Languages of the Red Army, graduating in 1944. As a military translator of the Chinese language he was sent to the Far Eastern Front, and posted in Manchuria. He was decommissioned from the army in 1947 and went on to graduate from the painting department of the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute.

Ancharov wrote a Soviet drama TV series called Day by Day. It ran for 17 episodes from 1971 to 1972. It was the first dramatic television series filmed by Soviet Central Television. In 1963, he wrote the TV screenplay for (Apassionata). In 1966, he became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. He worked as a screenwriter for feature films.

Mikhail Ancharov died on 11 July 1990