Anatoli Shiyan was born on April 5, 1906 in Borisovka village, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kursk oblast, Russia]. Anatoli was a writer, known for Das fliegende Schiff (1960) and Gewitter über den Feldern (1959). Anatoli died on May 6, 1989 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine].