Boris Laskin was born on July 22 [August 4] in 1914 to a Jewish family. His father died immediately after his birth. In 1918 he moved to Moscow with his mother Rosa Solomonovna and brother Mark. He graduated from the scriptwriters faculty of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1935. Since 1938 he works in the cinema. The author of verses of songs known in wartime and popular until today, such as "Three tankmen", "Dark Mounds Sleep", "March of tankmen". The author of variety interludes, plays, screenplays, as well as the fable "The Bear at the Ball", played the role bookkeeper Fedor Petrovich in the film "Carnival Night".
He died on August 22, 1983 in Moscow. He was buried in the Don cemetery in Moscow.