His 1976 film Brillianty dlya diktatury proletariata (Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat) is based on the homonymous 1974 detective novel by Yulian Semyonov.
After moving back to England in 1965, Scammell translated Childhood, Boyhood and Youth by Lev Tolstoy and a detective novel, Petrovka 38, by the Soviet author, Yulian Semyonov.
Yulian Semyonov | Nikolay Semyonov | Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky | Vladimir Magomedovich Semyonov | Grigory Semyonov | Andrey Semyonov | Aleksandr Sergeyevich Semyonov | Aleksandr Alekseyevich Semyonov | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Semyonov |
Evgeny Dodolev was the first official employee of extremely popular Russian Sovershenno Sekretno newspaper (which literally translates as Top Secret; in Russian "Совершенно секретно"; Editor in Chief – famous Russian writer Yulian Semyonov, a friend of John le Carré).