Konstantin Sergejewitsch Volkov

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Konstantin Sergejewitsch Wolkow ( Russian Константин Сергеевич Волков ; born 1907 in Moscow ; date of death unknown) was a Soviet science fiction writer.

Life

Volkov worked in the administrative system of the State Planning Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Государственный плановый комитет Совета Министров СССР), and in this capacity wrote a handout for the fishing cooperatives (1940), пимн.

He became known through two science fiction novels he wrote, the first of which, Звезда утренняя (1957), was published as an emergency landing on Venus in German translation in the GDR , where it had a circulation of 106,000 copies. It covers the story of the first Soviet interplanetary expedition to the planet Venus . The novel has also been translated into Czech and Polish.

Volkov's second novel Марс пробуждается ( Mars probuschdajetsja , "Mars awakes") takes up the protagonists of the first novel again, but this time the journey goes to Mars , where an alien spaceship is discovered on the Martian moon Phobos and an ancient civilization on the planet, ruled by cruel tyrants. The problems of the oppressed Martian people are quickly brought to a Marxist solution by the people on earth by organizing a revolution and overthrowing the government.

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Novels
  • Звезда утренняя (1957)
    • English: Emergency landing on Venus. Translated by Willi Berger. Culture and progress, Berlin 1959.
  • Марс пробуждается (1961)
narrative
  • Тайна безыменного острова (1956)

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personal data
SURNAME Volkov, Konstantin Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Волков, Константин Сергеевич (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century