Biography
Yuri Nikitin is a popular Soviet and Russian writer, the author of dozens of books written both under their name and under the pseudonym. He is one of the few representatives of the Pleiads of Soviet science, who managed to re-come to popularity after restructuring. His books, like new, and written a long time, continue to be published and reprinted, use fantastic lovers with stable demand.Childhood and youth
Yuri Aleksandrovich Nikitin was born on November 30, 1939 in Zhuravlevka, suburb of Kharkov. Early childhood had to hunger in Ukraine, then to the Great Patriotic War.
Father Yura did not remember - the man went to the front in the early days of the war and did not return back, dies in the hospital under Berlin because of the injury, so the boy was raised by Mom, grandfather and grandmother. Mother worked on a weaving factory in two shifts and almost did not see her son. With a grandfather, the future writer spent a lot of time, he taught his grandson with manual work - the man was a master for all hands.
Due to severe childhood, Nikitina's health was undermined. He often sick anneas, and as a result, as it often happens during chronic tonsillitis, the infection swung on the heart. Doctors said that the young man would last without surgery, and it was impossible to operate Yuri because of too low blood clotting. Then he independently engaged in health, carried away the yoga and thanks to this survived.
The arrogance of Yuri at school was mediocre, besides Nikitin constantly fought, and in the end after the 7th grade it was kicked out. The young man went to work at the plant, dreaming of 18 years to go into the army, but in the military registration and enlistment office, due to the state of health, he was given a "white ticket". Then Nikitin asked him a friend to replace him on the medical examination and thus recruited on the extreme north, to the wooded. After that, he worked in geological exploration expeditions, traveled a lot in Primorye and the Far East.
In the Ukrainian SSR, Yuri returned in 1964, settled to work on the plant by the founder. Then he was seriously carried away by sports - he was engaged in martial arts, and athletics, even became a master of sports on canoeing. Creative interests also did not bypass the party - Nikitin learned to play the violin, I tried to draw, wrote the first stories.
Books
The first book, a collection of stories "Man who changed the world" was published in 1973. And after the publication of the novel "Fireplongs", telling about the work of the foundry shop, Yuri Alexandrovich took into the Union of Writers. In 1979, Nikitin published the novel "Sword of Alexander Zasadko", or the "Golden Sword", but the book did not like to "above", and until 1985 the writer was practically not printed.
Having moved to Moscow with the arrival of the 1990s, Yuri, together with Lilia Anatolyevny Shishkina, founded the publishing house "Zmey Gornykh". First, only foreign fiction was published, and after the profile was the publication of the authorship of Nikitin himself.
In 1993, Yuri Alexandrovich wrote the Roman "Three from the Forest", which caused the interest of the public with a fundamentally new topics - Nikitin unexpectedly became the ancestor of the Glavonic Fantasy genre. The second cycle on the theme of Russia became "hyperbed", written in the genre of alternative history, to which the writer himself, as a result, took and the Obligar Golden Swamp.
The writer's work influenced the worldview of fans: in particular, Nikitin himself says that after the publication of the cycle "Russians go!" The number of people who accepted Islam increased, and after the Scythians, the fans called themselves Scythians during the census.
Separately from other works (Nikitin writes predominantly fantasy) there is a series of "strange dreams", the idea of which is transgumanism. The literary style of these things Yuri Alexandrovich calls "Cogistics", from Latin "Cogito" - to think. However, it says that is the only author writing in this genre.
Since 2001, Yuri regularly issued books about Paladine and "Popinets" Richard Long Hands under the pseudonym Guy Julius Orlovsky, but this did not advertise. Orlovsky continued to remain a mysterious figure that did not appear on the conmen and not published a photo, although Nikitina fans on the characteristic features of the letter quickly suspected who are behind the pseudonym.
The guesses were confirmed in 2014 at the presentation of the DCCC festival diploma - "Orlovsky" came there personally and went to the scene in the Knight's helmet, which then removed, to the pleasure of the public being Yuri Nikitin. The disclosure of the Personality of Guy Julia Orlovsky did not prevent the writer to continue to release books under the pseudonym - from 2014 to 2018 8 Romans came out about Richard Long Hands.
Personal life
For a long time, the Biography of the Writer remained a mystery - Yuri Alexandrovich did not participate in fantastic converents, did not meet with readers outside the Internet and did not give an interview. The first time he talked with a journalist in 2007, and basically it was a conversation about creativity.
The reason for dislike for publicity Nikitin explained the fear of writing stagnation because of the idea of achieving success. It was one of the reasons for moving from Kharkov to Moscow - becoming secretary of the local Union of Writers, Yuri was frightened with stagnation and escaped.
The personality of the writer, what he represents it in conversations with fans and journalists, often causes criticism: Nikitin is imputed in the guilt of high-tech and overestimated self-conceit. Also criticize "non-liberalness" of texts and "stamping" of works in favor of the mass reader. Yuri Alexandrovich explains the first thing that does not want to work with the editors, as they change the stylist too much, and the second - the desire to write what people are really interesting.
Nikitin's personal life is written in autobiographical books "I am 65" and "I - 75". The first time the writer registered the marriage in 1969. My wife was named Irina, young people met in a poetic evening and after 2 months signed. Two children, son and daughter were born in this marriage. Before that, due to accidental communication, the man appeared the daughter of Marina. For a short time, Irina and Yuri divorced the writer with a fictitious marriage to receive Moscow registration.
From 2010, Yuri Alexandrovich is married to Lilia Shishkina.
Yuri Nikitin now
Now Yuri Alexandrovich continues to write, regularly publishes new books. A man seriously follows the health, engaged in sports, is a supporter of a healthy nutrition, although it admits that he loves coffee with a lot of sweet and sweets at all.
One of the interests of the writer is transgumanism; According to Yuri Alexandrovich, this is due to the healthy hungry childhood. In addition, believes in cryonics and concluded a contract for a posthumous frost with the company "Cryerus".
Based on Nikitin's books and continues to function the browser game "Troyzaravia".
Bibliography
- 1973 - "Man who has changed the world"
- 1976 - "Fireplongs"
- 1979 - "Golden Sword"
- 1993 - "Three from the Forest"
- 1995 - "Ingvar and Alder"
- 1997 - "Rage"
- 2000 - "Trumpet Jericho"
- 2002 - "Imago"
- 2003 - "Immortist"
- 2004 - "Our Great Land and is abundant ..."
- 2011 - "Yutland, Brother of Doulona"
- 2016 - "On the threshold"
- 2017 - "Man from the Future"