Liya Solomyanskaya was born on May 5, 1907 in Minsk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Minsk oblast, Belarus]. She was a writer, known for Das Schicksal des Trommlers (1956), Voennaya tayna (1959) and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1965). She died in 1986 in the USSR.
