Aleksandr Zguridi was born on February 23, 1904 in Saratov, Russian Empire as Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zguridi. He was a director and writer, known for V peskakh Sredney Azii (1943), Zacharovannye ostrova (1965) and V debryakh, gde reki begut... (1988). He died on September 16, 1998 in Moscow, Russia.