Aleksei Ivanov

Alexei Viktorovich Ivanov (Russian: Алексе́й Ви́кторович Ивано́в; born November 23, 1969) is a Russian writer. Ivanov was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) into a family of shipbuilding engineers. In 1971 the family moved to Perm, where he grew up. In 1987, he entered Ural State University as a journalism student. He left college after a year, returning in 1990 to study art and culturology and getting his degree in 1996. His first publication was a fantastic story called "Hunt for the Great...