Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Afanassjevitch Obruchev (Russian: Владимир Афанасьевич Обручев, scientific transliteration Vladimir Afanas'evič Obručev; * 28 Septemberjul / October 10 1863greg in Klepenino, Tver province, .. † June 19, 1956 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist, geographer and writer.
Life
Obruchev was considered one of the most important scientists of the former Soviet Union. He was Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin and Stalin Prize winners, honorary president of the Geographical Society of the USSR and the author of numerous scientific papers. He also wrote a number of SF novels primarily for youth, in which he incorporated his knowledge of geography, geology and earth history. He is considered one of the most important representatives of early fantasy literature of the Soviet Union.
Literary creation
In 1924 he wrote his most popular novel " Plutonien " that can be put on a par with " Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne and " The Lost World " by Arthur Conan Doyle. Based on an adventurous action he is taking the Hollow Earth theory and uses them for an exciting novel about the history of the earth. In addition, it can be incorporated his knowledge of prehistoric animals.
Followed in 1926, the novel " The Sannikowland ", which should not be so successful and was filmed in 1972. This time he took up the hypothesis of ice-free land held by volcanism within the Arctic Circle, whose existence had been kept from him and some other Russian researchers over and over again for not impossible.
In 1928 he portrayed in " prospectors in the desert " the life of Chinese miners in Dzungaria during Dunganenaufstände. The short story collection "In the rocky wilderness of Inner Asia " (1951) is chronologically a sequel to this volume. The loosely strung together stories describe the adventures of a Russian merchant and treasure digger, the end of the 19th century in search of gold mines, ruined cities and monasteries Dzungaria, the Tarim Basin and Tibet roams.
Honors
- Member of the Leopoldina (1925 )