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This article is about the philologist and writer. For the physicist, see Aleksandr Chudakov.
Alexander Pavlovich Chudakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Чудако́в; February 2, 1938, Shchuchinsk – October 3, 2005, Moscow) was a Russian philologist and writer, known for his study of Chekhov, and for the novel A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps, which was awarded the Russian Booker Prize of the decade in 2011.