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