Biography

Yefim Mikhailovich Galperin (Russian: Ефим Михайлович Гальперин, Ukrainian: Юхим Михайлович Гальперін) (born August 30, 1946 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a Russian American producer, film director, scenarist, journalist, and writer. He is known for Russian-language films and documentaries as well as his contributions to the Russian children's comedy TV show Yeralash. Galperin graduated from Dnipropetrovsk's National Mining University of Ukraine in 1970 as an engineer and later attended the National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kiev, Ukraine. He graduated from there in 1979 as a film director.

Later he worked in the Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev, the Sverdlovsk Film Studio in Yekaterinberg, and the Gorky Film Studio in Moscow. Since 1992, Galperin has resided in the United States where he has anchored and produced content for the Russian-language television channel WMNB. Currently, he is a writer and journalist.