It is specified that Heifetz suffered from chronic diseases of the heart and kidneys.
The writer was born in 1934 in Leningrad. His books were published in the magazines Soviet Writer and Young Guard. Kheifets was a close friend of Joseph Brodsky, Lev Losev and other writers of the 1960-70s.
In 1980, after four years in a colony and two years of settlement, he left the USSR for Israel under the article on anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation, where he continued his literary work.
On October 27, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky died in Britain.