Question: Was Evgeny Schwartz or Benno Besson from the Soviet Union?

Context articles: Cain XVIII
Akademik Fyodorov
1967 October Revolution Parade
Yevgeni Belosheikin
Zhenya Belousov
Evgeny Paton
The Pyramid. The Soviet Mafia
Kharkiv Theoretical Physics School
Benno Besson
Evgeny Schwartz

Cain XVIII (Russian: Каин XVIII ) is a 1963 film from the Soviet Union, adapted from Evgeny Shvarts' tale "Two friends".
 The Soviet film industry reported that 21.7 million spectators saw the film.
RV Akademik Fyodorov (Russian: Академик Фёдоров ) is a Russian scientific diesel-electric research vessel, the flagship of the Russian polar research fleet.
 It was built in Rauma, Finland for the Soviet Union and completed on September 8, 1987.
 It started operations on October 24, 1987, in the USSR.
 The ship was named after a Soviet polar explorer, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Evgeny Fyodorov, who worked on the first Soviet manned drifting ice station North Pole-1.
The 1967 October Revolution Parade is the parade on Moscow's Red Square devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, 7 November 1967.
 As 1967 being the 50th anniversary parade it would feature troops dressed up as historical units from the Russian civil war era.
 It would also feature the first Color guard on parade from the honor guard.
 Cavalry units from the Revolution era also rode through Red Square.
 Commanding the parade is First Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District, Colonel General Evgeny Ivanovski.
 Inspecting the parade and also giving his first jubilee address is Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko.
 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev was on Lenin's Mausoleum in attendance.
 Major General Nikolai Nazarov led the Massed bands of the Soviet Union.
 The General Secretary of the Communist Party of East Germany Walter Ulbricht was also in attendance.
 The massed bands marched off to the tune of "My Beloved Motherland".
Yevgeni Vladimirovich Belosheikin (Евгений Белошейкин) (April 17, 1966 – November 18, 1999) was a professional ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.
 He played for the HC CSKA Moscow and SKA Leningrad.
 He also played on the Soviet Union's 1987 Canada Cup and Rendez-vous '87 teams.
 He was nicknamed "Evgeny the Great" and was touted as the next Vladislav Tretiak – and had even been tutored by Tretiak and wore his number 20, though their styles bore little resemblance.
Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Белоу́сов ; September 10, 1964, Zhikhar - June 2, 1997, Moscow), better known as Zhenya Belousov (Russian: Женя Белоусов ) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, one of the most popular in the Soviet Union and Russia in the late 1980s - early 1990s.
Professor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton (Russian: Евгений Оскарович Патон, "Yevgeni Oskarovich Paton" 1870–1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer who established the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev.
 Paton was a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1953).
 He was the father of Borys Paton.
The Pyramid (1990) (Russian: Пирамида-1 , Romanized: "Piramida") is a thriller novel by famous Soviet special investigator, deputy of Soviet Parliament Telman Gdlyan and professional writer Evgeny Dodolev, about Soviet Mafia.
 The very first Soviet book about corruption.
 The book allegedly exposed ties between Leonid Brezhnev's family, Sharof Rashidov and the Soviet Mafia.
 With their decidedly critical viewpoint of governmental corruption, it comes as little surprise that co-authors would eventually end up a government targets.
 According to Edward Topol the already printed book was banned (1989) and released a year and half later, just one year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The Kharkiv Theoretical Physics School was founded by Lev Landau in Kharkov, Soviet Union (now Kharkiv, Ukraine).
 It is sometimes referred to as the Landau school — more precisely, one might say that Landau's group at Kharkiv was the beginning of the Landau school that, after Landau moved to the Kapitza’ Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow, included new generations of theoretical physicists from the countries of the former Soviet Union.
 Lev Landau was the head of the Kharkhiv Theoretical Physics School from 1932 to 1937, when he left for Moscow.
 His students at Kharkiv included Alexander Akhiezer, Evgeny Lifshitz, Ilya Lifshitz, and Isaak Pomeranchuk.
 Upon the recommendation of Edward Teller, László Tisza joined, in January 1935, Landau's group at Kharkiv and then returned to Budapest in 1937 after Landau's departure to Moscow.
Benno Besson (born "René-Benjamin Besson"; 4 November 1922 in Yverdon-les-Bains; died 16 February 2006 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swiss actor and director.
 He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble in East-Berlin, where he went by an invitation of Bertolt Brecht in 1949.
 Some of his acquainted stagings were "The Dragon" by Evgeny Schwartz, so that he travelled with Deutsches Theater all-around Europe and Asia (also in Japan), and "Der Frieden" (Aristophanes edited by Peter Hacks).
 He became the Intendant at Volksbühne in the 1960s and worked often with Heiner Müller.
 In his plays, he worked amongst others with the popular actors Fred Düren, Eberhard Esche and Ursula Karusseit.
Evgeny Lvovitch Schwartz (Russian: Евге́ний Льво́вич Шва́рц ; October 21 [O.S. October 9] 1896 , Kazan, Russian Empire – January 15, 1958, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet writer and playwright, whose works include twenty-five plays, and screenplays for three films (in collaboration with Nikolai Erdman).