Sergey Zalygin
Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin was a Soviet writer, novelist.
He was the first non-Communist Party editor-in-chief of the monthly literary magazine Novy Mir. Zalygin was also an academician of the Section of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Zalygin was widely known as an environmentalist, and a prominent critic of the Siberian Rivers Rerouting Project. In 1987, his short novel Povorot criticizing this government's project was published in Novy Mir
Russian writer Vladimir Voinovich remembered that Zalygin had refused to publish Voinovich's stories even in the earlier perestroika time concluding that “the country has largely retreated to its past, because during perestroika it was ‘rebuilt’ by such conformists as Zalygin.”Notable works
- Na Irtyshe
- Solyonaya pad
- Iuzhno-Amerikansky Variant
- Komissiya – Sequel to Salt Valley
- Posle buri
The English language edition of the novel, "The South American Variant" is listed on abebooks.com.
