Nikolai Chukovsky was born on June 2, 1905 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Baltiyskoe nebo (1960), Chastnyy sluchay (1934) and Morskoy okhotnik (1954). He died on November 4, 1965 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].