Yakov Akim was born on December 15, 1923 in Galich, Kostroma Governorate, RSFSR, USSR [now Kostroma Oblast, Russia]. Yakov was a writer, known for
The Firefly No. 3 (1963),
Patty (1956) and
The Tale About Malchish-Kibalchish (1958). Yakov died on October 21, 2013 in Moscow, Russia.