Valeri Zalotukha was born on July 3, 1954 in village Shakhty 5/15, Uzlovaya raion, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a writer, known for
Musulmanin (1995),
Makarov (1993) and
72 metra (2004). He died on February 9, 2015 in Moscow, Russia.