Nadezhda Kozhushanaya | |
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| Born | Nadezhda Pavlovna Yamshanova 15 March 1952 Sverdlovsk, USSR |
| Died | 15 January 1997 (aged 44) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, writer |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Years active | 1983—1997 |
Nadezhda Pavlovna Kozhushanaya (Russian: Надежда Павловна Кожушаная; 15 March 1952 in Sverdlovsk – 15 January 1997 in Moscow) was a Soviet, Russian screenwriter and writer.[1] Nadezhda said: "I live and write with love to my crazy time". She was a philologist and a musician by education, a playwright by vocation. Although she died at the age of 44, she was referred to as "The most gifted screenwriter of the perestroika epoch".[2]