Boris Leontyevich Gorbatov (1908-1954) - Russian Soviet writer, screenwriter. Laureate of two Stalin Prizes of the second degree (1946, 1952). Born on July 2 (15), 1908 at the Petromaryevsky mine (now Pervomaisk, Lugansk region of Ukraine), in a Jewish family [3]. As a child, he entered as an apprentice planer at the Kramatorsk plant in Donbass, then became a worker.