Nadezhda Pavlovna Kozhushanaya (Russian: Надежда Павловна Кожушаная; 15 March 1952 in Sverdlovsk – 15 January 1997 in Moscow) was a Soviet, Russian screenwriter and writer. Nadezhda said: "I live and write with love to my crazy time”. She was a philologist and a musician by education, a playwright by vocation. Although she died at the age of 44, she was referred to as “The most gifted screenwriter of the perestroika epoch”.