Roman Kachanov was born on February 25, 1921 in Smolensk, Smolensk uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, RSFSR [now Smolensk Oblast, Russia] as Roman Abelevich Kachanov. He was a director and writer, known for Stories from My Childhood (1998), The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981) and Metamorphosis (1978). He died on March 4, 1993 in Moscow, Russia.