Anatoli Gribkov was born on March 23, 1919 in Dukhovoe, Voronezh Governorate, Russian SFSR [now Liski Raion, Voronezh Oblast, Russia]. He is known for Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian (1974), Ugol padeniya (1970) and Izhorskiy batalon (1972). He died on February 12, 2008 in Moscow, Russia.