Timur Gaidar

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Timur Gaidar (Russian: Тиму́р Арка́дьевич Гайда́р) (December 8, 1926,Arkhangelsk — December 23, 1999, Moscow) was Soviet/Russian rear admiral, writer and journalist. He was supposed to be the prototype for Timur from Arkady Gaidar's book Timur and His Squad that was the inspiration for the Timurite movement.

Son of Arkady Gaidar, he graduated from the Leningrad Naval School, faculty of journalism of the Lenin Military Political Academy, served on a submarine of the Baltic Fleet and the Pacific Ocean Fleet. Worked in newspapers The Soviet Sleet, The Red Star, and Pravda.

His wife was Ariadna Bazhova (b. 1925, daughter of the Russian writer Pavel Bazhov). Egor Gaidar, a Russian politician is their son.