Vasyl Berezhnyi

Vasily Pavlovich Berezhnoy (June 26, 1918 – March 19, 1988) was a Ukrainian Soviet science fiction writer and journalist.

Biography Vasily Berezhnoy was born on June 26, 1918, in the village of Bakhmach, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. In 1937, he graduated from the Ukrainian Journalism Technical School in Kharkiv and worked at the editorial offices of the newspapers Prapor Komuny in Bakhmach and Molodyi Komunar in Chernihiv. In 1938, he published his first science fiction short story, "The Planet Will Live" (Ukrainian: Планета житиме). During World War II, Berezhnoy served in the tank forces, actively participating in combat operations and sustaining severe injuries. After the war and his demobilization, he worked for the newspapers Molod Ukrainy and the magazines Dnipro, Vitchyzna, and Ukraina. In 1948, he published his first book, a collection of documentary essays titled At the Helm (Ukrainian: За кермом). In 1952, he graduated from Kyiv University named after Taras Shevchenko. He later published several essay collections, including Pages of Life (Ukrainian: Сторінки життя, 1952) and Ships Launched from the Slipways (Ukrainian: Кораблі сходять зі стапелів, 1959), as well as the novellas Green Sea (Ukrainian: Зелене море, 1955) and Thorny Thorn (Ukrainian: Колюче терня, 1966). Berezhnoy also translated novels by Afanasiy Koptelov, and plays by Nikolai Pogodin and Anatoly Sofronov from Russian into Ukrainian. Berezhnoy gained the most…Citește mai mult

Standalone editions To the Stellar Worlds: A Science Fiction Novella. Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1958. Sensation on Mars: Science Fiction Novellas and Short Stories. Authorized translation from Ukrainian by Alexander Tverskoy; Illustrated by Petr Karachentsov. Moscow: Soviet Writer, 1988. ISBN 5-265-00105-0.

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Periodical and anthology publications "What the Glass Eye Didn't See: A Science Fiction Short Story". Translated from Ukrainian. Pioneriya (Kyiv), 1958, No. 9. To the Stellar Worlds: [Novella]. Translated from Ukrainian; Illustrated by B. Arzhekaev. Adventures and Science Fiction. Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1958. "Return of the Galaxy: A Science Fiction Short Story". Translated from Ukrainian. Pioneriya (Kyiv), 1959, No. 2. "Blue Planet: A Science Fiction Short Story". Illustrated by E. Skuinya. Science and Technology, 1961, No. 10. "Voice of the Mother: [Short Story]". Translated from Ukrainian by A. Roskopyta. Science Fiction-78. Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1978.