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Yaroslav Golovanov
Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovanov (russian: Ярослав Кириллович Голованов; 2 June 1932 in Moscow – 21 May 2003 in Peredelkino) was a Russian journalist, writer and science popularizer. He covered space exploration by the Soviet Union from its beginnings. Golovanov's father was director of a theatre (today's Gogol's Theatre). His mother was an actress. Golovanov studied rocket engineering at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, finishing in 1957(?). During 1956-58 he worked in a laboratory of the Ministry of Aviation Industry. In September 1957 he started to write for the science department of the daily '' Komsomolskaya Pravda'', working there as an editor from February 1958. From 1968 to 2003 he was an independent contributor of the newspaper. Golovanov soon specialized in space exploration. The first novel "Кузнецы грома" (''Thunder's Blacksmiths'') deals with the lives of Soviet rocket designers. Between 1965 and 1966 Golovan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaroslav Golovanov
Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovanov (russian: Ярослав Кириллович Голованов; 2 June 1932 in Moscow – 21 May 2003 in Peredelkino) was a Russian journalist, writer and science popularizer. He covered space exploration by the Soviet Union from its beginnings. Golovanov's father was director of a theatre (today's Gogol's Theatre). His mother was an actress. Golovanov studied rocket engineering at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, finishing in 1957(?). During 1956-58 he worked in a laboratory of the Ministry of Aviation Industry. In September 1957 he started to write for the science department of the daily '' Komsomolskaya Pravda'', working there as an editor from February 1958. From 1968 to 2003 he was an independent contributor of the newspaper. Golovanov soon specialized in space exploration. The first novel "Кузнецы грома" (''Thunder's Blacksmiths'') deals with the lives of Soviet rocket designers. Between 1965 and 1966 Golovan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitri Bilenkin
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bilenkin (russian: Биле́нкин, Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович); September 21, 1933 – July 28, 1987, was a Soviet science fiction author. Biography He graduated from the geology faculty of Moscow State University in 1958, and participated in geological expeditions to Kizil Kum, Betpak-Dala, Middle Asia, Transbaikalia and Siberia as a geochemist. In 1959 Bilénkin became a science fiction writer, worked on ''Komsomolskaya Pravda's'' editorial staff and later at ''Vokrug sveta'' ''( en, Around the World)'' magazine. He was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR from 1975, and member of the CPSU from 1963. Bilénkin's stories were translated into English, German, Polish, French, Vietnamese and Japanese. In the United States, most of his works were published by Macmillan Publishers. He was awarded the 1988 Ivan Yefremov prize (Aelita science fiction posthumous) for his favorite character named Lance Uppercut, who has been descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Male Writers
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |