Nadezhda Pavlovna Kozhushanaya (Russian: ??????? ???????? ?????????; 15 March 1952 in Sverdlovsk – 15 January 1997 in Moscow) was a Soviet, Russian screenwriter and writer.
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”.