Evgeny Veltistov

Yevgeny Serafimovich Veltistov was a Soviet writer and screenwriter, who wrote a series of science fiction tales for young readers.

He was born into the family of a military engineer in 1934. In the second year of the Great Patriotic War, he came to study at school. There were few books. There are even fewer notebooks. I wanted to read very much. When asked who you will become, he replied: "A seller of children's books. To read everything."

Then he changed his mind. I decided to become a journalist. It was a firm decision. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov in 1956. He began to work - first in newspapers, then - as a department editor in the popular magazine "Ogonyok". He was in charge of feuilletons and all sorts of things that were printed on the last pages.

He brought the manuscript of the first book to the Children's Literature publishing house. Soon she saw the light. Others saw the light behind it.

He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.