Yevgeni Kumankov was born on February 29, 1920 in Smolensk, Smolensk uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, RSFSR [now Smolensk Oblast, Russia]. He was a production designer and art director, known for
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973),
It Can't Be! (1975) and
Twelve Chairs (1971). He died on March 12, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.