Viktor Kolupaev


Viktor Dmitrievič Kolupaev was a Russian scientist and soft science fiction author who won the Aelita Prize in 1986 and 1988. Kolupaev was born in Nezametny, Yakutia, attended school in Krasnoyarsk and moved in 1954 to Tomsk where he attended the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute and became a member of the Siberian Physical-Technical Institute of the Tomsk State University, where he worked in mathematics and bionics. He started writing fiction in 1970.

Works

Kolupaev also published two collections: Hermit's Swing and The Singing Forest. His only novel was Firmenny Poezd "Fomitch", published in 1979.