“On November 1, 2021, a well-known screenwriter, playwright, director and actor Yuri Nikolaevich Klepikov died after an illness,” the website of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia says.

According to Klepikov's scripts, films were shot by the country's leading directors: Alexei German ("The Seventh Satellite"), Andrei Konchalovsky ("The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry"), Vitaly Melnikov ("Mom Got Married") and others.