Alexander Sergeevich Kakovin (Ukraine, 15.8.1910 - 7.9.1979)

Outstanding Ukrainian chess composer of chess problems and endgame studies He also composed auxiliary checkmate problems.

- born in Kharkov, by technical mining profession.
From 1936 began to dedicate himself to the chess composition, getting to create, in equal parts, 400 works between problems and studies,

and in 1968 was named Master of the Sport of the USSR in chess. 

A good deal of Kakovin's studies are in collaboration with other composers

and in that respect his friendship with F. Bondarenko resulted in the creation of numerous joint works, many of which were awarded.
In his individual youth works Kakovin exhibits a light and pleasant style, with brief and linear ideas;

But in its maturity it is noticed a greater depth and a more restrictive criterion in the use of the material.

He was Soviet chess composer, master of sports of the USSR chess composition (1968) and has composed many, many chess player - friendly endgame studies.

Source Website ARVES 

Germain Wikipedia writes about him:

"Alexander Sergejewitsch Kakovin (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Каковин; born August 15, 1910 in Kharkiv; † unknown) was a Russian chess composer. He was a patent expert.

Chess composition
Since 1936, Kakowin has published more than 400 compositions, more than half of them studies. He won 120 awards, including 40 prizes and 13 of them first. Kakowin was in the finals of four USSR singles championships. In 1962 he placed 6th in the study section. In 1968 he became Master of Sports of the USSR in chess composition. No published compositions by him after 1985 are known.

From 1973 he worked frequently with A. Motor.

Web links
Compositions by Alexander Kakowin on the PDB server
Individual evidence
  Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov and others: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary. Sovietskaya enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3, p. 145 (Russian)
  hhdbiii, 2005