尼古拉斯·厄克，Nikolai Ekk was born on June 14, 1902 in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire as Nikolai Vladimirovich Ivakin. He was a director and writer, known for Putyovka v zhizn (1931), Grunya Kornakova (1936) and Sorochinskaya yarmarka (1939). He died on July 13, 1976 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.