Born 25 September 1937 in Kaunas.
Died on 02 02 1981 in Vilnius. Buried in Petrašiūnai Cemetery.
Born in Kaunas, but spent his childhood at his grandmother's house in the village of Prauliai, Jonava district. He attended the Jonava Railway Station Primary School and later the Jonava Secondary School. He entered the Veterinary Academy, but did not graduate. In 1955-1962 he worked as a beekeeper in the collective farm "Lenino keliu" in Jonava district. In the spring of 1962 he took part in a playwrights' seminar in Dubulti. He was interviewed by the seminar leader V. Pimenov and went to Moscow, to the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature, from which he graduated in 1973. His first play "Studentiška novela" was printed in 1954. He began publishing short stories in 1958, and later turned to playwriting. In addition to his original plays, he staged J. Vaižgantas's "Nebylis", P. Merime's "Lokis" and V. Krėve's "Skirgailas". His plays "If There is a Knock...", "Bridge to a Distant Night", etc. have been translated into Russian, and "Lost Among the Stars" into Estonian. Samulevich's plays have been translated into other languages and have been staged in theatres in Armenia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Moldova, Russia, Finland, Ukraine and Hungary.
In 1991, a branch of the Jonava Regional Museum was opened in Prauli (Jonava district) - the Memorial Museum of the Three Famous Samulevichs, which contains authentic furniture, a collection of R. Samulevich's books, photographs and other documents. The Maironis Literature Museum, which houses the writer's archive, has published a booklet dedicated to him "Raimundas Samulevičius - 55" (Kaunas, 1993) and a richly illustrated booklet "Raimundas Samulevičius, 1937-1981". Since 1993, every second year Jonava has hosted the traditional international amateur theatre festival "Aidas" in memory of the countryman Raimundas Samulevičius. In 1997, the 6th Secondary School of Jonava was named after R. Samulevičius, and in the same year the school museum with a memorial exposition of R. Samulevičius was established. On the occasion of his 70th anniversary in 2007, a film about the playwright "Fragile, as if woven from fog" was presented at the Jonava Regional Museum. Danutė Marcinkevičienė prepared a publication about R. Samulevičius and others "They were loved - may they not be forgotten..." (Kaunas, 2007), and in 2012 - "Poohs - a reflection of that Lost Time". Petras Palilionis created a small poem "White Apple Tree", dedicated to the memory of the painter Antanas Samuolis, the playwright Raimundas Samulevičius and the folk-artist Stasė Samulevičienė (Kaunas: Naujasis lankas, 2008). One of the streets of Kaunas is named after R. and S. Samulevičius.