Oleg Semenovych Ladyzhensky (; , Oleh Semenovych Ladyzhenskyi) was born March 23, 1963, in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine. He graduated from Kharkiv Institute of Culture in 1984. After that he became a theatre director. It is Ladyzhensky who's responsible for H. L. Oldie's poetry, he publishes his verse separately from Oldie books as well, under his real name.
