BELYAEV Alexander Romanovich

Born in Smolensk. Studied at the Smolensk Theological Seminary, graduated from the Yaroslavl Demidov Lyceum Law. After the return to Smolensk worked as an assistant barrister, both began to publish in newspapers theater reviews. His first feature article - a children's play "Grandma Moira" in 1914, but then tried his hand as a director. Soon, however, bone tuberculosis for a long time puts him in bed. Only in 1922, Belyaev was able to return to work - among his posts at this time the post inspector juvenile criminal investigation department in Yalta, an educator in the orphanage. In 1923, Belyaev moved to Moscow, where he worked in the Commissariat of Posts and Telecommunications, then legal adviser to the People's Commissariat of Education.
. In 1925, Belyaev published in the journal "World pathfinder" story "Head Professor Douelya" (later reworked into the novel), and has since become known as a fiction writer
. In subsequent years he published many stories and novels, . as well as the novels "Amphibian Man" (1928), . "The Lord of the World" (1929), . Man, . lost its face "(1929), . which played a significant role in shaping the humanistic tradition of domestic fiction,
. Later works Belyaeva, . exception of his last novel, "Ariel" (1941), . represent a mixture of malovyrazitelnuyu agitok political and scientific ideas, . that is largely due to rigid ideological pressing, . under which they had to exist in those years, all writers.,
. Alexander Belyaev died of tuberculosis in Pushkin in 1942
. His work is ideologically biased Soviet literary criticism used to create the theory of fiction "near sight" that have dominated the domestic NF until the appearance of "Andromeda Nebula" Ivan Efremov.
. In the name of Alexander Belyaev these institutions in 1989 in Leningrad writers' organization annual prize for best fiction and non-fiction works.