Background
Arkanov was born Arkady Mikhailovich Steinbock in Kiev, Ukraine. At the onset of World World War II in 1941, he was evacuated to Siberia, together with his mother and younger brother.
Actor playwright satirist writer
Arkanov was born Arkady Mikhailovich Steinbock in Kiev, Ukraine. At the onset of World World War II in 1941, he was evacuated to Siberia, together with his mother and younger brother.
In 1957, Arkanov graduated from the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and before becoming a writer worked as a family doctor.
Between 1963 and 1967, he was a satirist at the journal Yunost. In the 1960sā70s, he collaborated with Grigori Gorin, with whom he wrote several plays for the Moscow Theater of Satire. He had a son, Vasily Arkadievich Arkanov (born 1967), a Russian-English translator and journalist who lives in New York since 1993.
Arkanov was a lifelong fan of the football club Football Club Torpedo Moscow.
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In 1966, he changed his last name, and in 1968 became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.