Was born September 18, 1945 in Samarqand (U.S.S.R).
Zlotnikov graduated Tashkent University, Department of Russian Philology. He worked as a sports journalist, wrote poetry and prose since 1969, and was published in Tashkent newspapers and literary magazine “Star of the East.”
Zlotnikov’s first productions: “Antonia’s Husbands” and “Everything will be fine” (1977), played by the Leningrad Comedy Theater, and was directed by Pyotr Fomenko. Since then, Zlotnikov’s plays, were widely performed in Moscow’s theaters: “Taganka Theater”, “Moscow Sovremennik Theater”, “Hermitage Theater”, “The School of Modern Drama”, “The New Drama Theater”, “Near the house of Stanislavsky”, in the theater on Pokrovka, “Shalom”, and also in the theaters of St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
The plays “A Man Came To A Woman”, “The Old Man Who Left His Old Lady”, “Scenes at the Fountain”, “Waltz of the Lonely”, “The Team”, “Two Poodles”, “Mutants”, and others have been translated into 15 languages and preformed in Poland, Germany, France, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Israel, Bulgaria, Austria, USA, Mexico, Argentina and more.
