Yakov Aronovich Kostyukovsky (August 23, 1921, Zolotonosha, Kremenchug Province, Ukrainian SSR, now Cherkasy region, Ukraine - April 11, 2011, Moscow [1] [2]) - USSR poet, playwright and screenwriter, satirist, journalist, military correspondent.

From 1947 he was engaged only in literary work. In the midst of a campaign to against cosmopolitism, he was dismissed from Komsomolskaya Pravda. From 1948, together with Vladlen Bakhnov, wrote satirical poems, plays, scripts, reprises for pop and circus performers. In December 1952 he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
Together with M. Slobodsky and L. Gaidai, he wrote the scripts of the three most famous comedies of the latter - “Operation“ Y ”and other adventures of Shurik”, “The Caucasian Captive” and “The Diamond Arm”.
He is the author of the book of satirical poems “Male Conversation” (1965), a collection of comedy screenplays “To live well. And to live well is even better ”(1998).