Cosmonautics. Alexander Kazantsev's Flaming Islands (2017)

On September 2, 1906, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev was born.

He has lived a long, eventful life.

During the Great Patriotic War, he was the head of a special task force of the Main Military Engineering Directorate of the Army, was engaged in testing new equipment, and after the war he led military engineers in Germany and Austria who dismantled fascist factories.

Having started writing in the mid-1930s, he became one of the most famous science fiction writers of the Soviet era, and also published a number of articles and stories devoted to the mystery of the Tunguska meteorite.

For a long time he worked as an engineer at one of the leading enterprises of the space industry - VNIIEM. His works have become a kind of warning to earthlings about the fragility of peace on our planet.

The plot starred the writer's son Nikita Kazantsev, Chairman of the Board of the Union of Search Teams Yuri Smirnov, political scientist Sergey Markov, physicist Evgeny Shirokov, literary critic Maxim Osmolovsky, writer Yuri Polyakov.