Fyodor Berezin


Fyodor Dmitrievich Berezin is a Russian science fiction writer. Since 2014 he is an active supporter of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Biography

Fyodor Berezin was born in Donetsk. He lived there until 1977 when he joined the Engels anti-aircraft training school. He graduated in 1981 and served as an AA officer in Kazakhstan, then in the Far East.
In 1991, Berezin left the military at the rank of captain and currently lives in his hometown of Donetsk. He tried a multitude of various career choices: entrepreneur, mine construction, and others. Married, he has a son and daughter.
Currently, Berezin is a professional writer, a founder and chairman of "Strannik", Donetsk club of science fiction fans.
He dreamed of writing science fiction novels since he was a young boy but only began to do this seriously at the age of 38. Berezin's novels work within the boundaries of hard science fiction and is labelled by some critics as a "turborealist". Calls his style of writing "science fictional/philosophical technothriller". Berezin's first published novel is the science fiction novel Ash in 2001. He recognize the influence of H. G. Wells, Kurt Vonnegut, Stanislaw Lem or Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in his work.

Awards

During the War in Donbass he served as the Deputy Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People's Republic for a period in 2014. In November 2014, he led an armed seizure of the Donetsk branch of the Writer's Union of Ukraine, declaring the establishment of a new union of writers of the DPR.

Novels