Gennadiy Martovich Prashkevich (russian: Генна́дий Ма́ртович Прашке́вич; born May 16, 1941, in Pirovskoye,

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Siber ...

) is a Russian

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

writer, critic, editor, translator and

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member. He won the

Aelita Prize The Aelita Award is an award for science fiction writers founded by the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Writers Union) and " Uralsky Sledopyt Magazine" in 1981. It was named after the classic Russian science fiction ...

(1994) and Garin-Mikhaylovsky Prize (1999). He is also a poet, translator and essayist. Some of his works (''Razorvanoye chudo'' (''The Torn Miracle'', 1978), ''Pyat kostrov rombom'' (''Five Bonfires In A Rhomb'', 1989), ''Shpion protiv alkhimikov'' (''A Spy Versus Alchemists'', 1994), ''Shkatulka rytsarya'' (''The Knight's Casket'', 1996) became popular. Prashkevich graduated from

Tomsk University The National Research Tomsk State University, TSU (russian: Национа́льный иссле́довательский То́мский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a public research university located in Tom ...

and participated in various

geological Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Eart ...

and

paleontological Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (geology), epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes t ...

expeditions to

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, Kuzbass,

Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...

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and

Kamchatka The Kamchatka Peninsula (russian: полуостров Камчатка, Poluostrov Kamchatka, ) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about . The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk make up the peninsula's eastern and wes ...

. As a science fiction writer Prashkevich debuted with the story ''Ostrov Tumanov'' (''The Island of Mists'') in 1957, having close ties with

Ivan Yefremov Ivan Antonovich (real patronymic Antipovich) Yefremov ( ru , Ива́н Анто́нович (Анти́пович) Ефре́мов; April 23, 1908 – October 5, 1972; last name sometimes transliterated as Efremov) was a Soviet paleonto ...

by that time. His verse books include ''Posvyashcheniya'' (''The Dedications'', 1992) and ''Spor s dyavolom'' (''A Dispute With Devil'', 1996). Prashkevich's works were published in the

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and in some other countries.

References

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