During the Soviet era, the detective genre was especially popular among readers. Some works have been filmed. The most famous authors are Arkady and Georgy Vainers, Arkady Adamov, Vil Lipatov, Yulian Semenov, Leonid Slovin, etc.
Weiner brothers
Arkady Aleksandrovich Vayner, the eldest among the brothers, was born in Moscow on January 13, 1931. Graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Law. Arkady worked as an investigator, then he was promoted to the head of the investigation department of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. Together with his younger brother, Georgy Alexandrovich, he wrote many famous detective stories, the plots for which he took from his own forensic work.
Georgy Vayner was born on February 10, 1938. In 1960 he graduated from the correspondence faculty of the Moscow Institute of Law. The brothers brought fame for the works "A Watch for Mr. Kelly", "Cure for Fear", "Groping at Noon", "Visit to the Minotaur", "Vertical Race", "The Gospel of the Executioner", "Era of Mercy" and "The Loop and the Stone in the green grass”. The brothers also wrote screenplays for films and theater plays. The popular film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed", directed by Stanislav Govorukhin, is based on the brothers "Era of Mercy"
Julian Semyonov
Soviet writer in the genre of "investigative journalism" Yulian Semenov was born on October 8, 1931. He is known as the author of works about Isaev-Shtirlitsa, based on which the famous film "Seventeen Moments of Spring" was shot, about police colonel Vladislav Kostenko - "Petrovka, 38", "Confrontation", "Ogarev, 6", colonel of state security Vitaly Slavin - "TASS is authorized declare ". The author also wrote historical novels-versions of "The Death of Peter I", "The Murder of Stolypin", "Pseudonym", "Guchkov Syndrome" and "Scientific Commentary".
Yulian Semyonov was president of the International Association of Detective and Political Novels, author and editors of the almanac and TV show Top Secret, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Detective and Politics.
Other famous writers
The writer Vily Lipatov became famous for such works as The Legend of the Director Pronchatov, And It's All About Him, The Village Detective, Aniskin and Fantomas, and Aniskin Again. Movies have been created based on the latest novels.
Arkady Adamov is considered the founder of the detective genre in the Soviet era. The famous writer wrote the stories "The Case of the Motley", "The Black Moth", "The Footprint of the Fox", "Circles on the Water", "Evil Wind", "Loop", "To Free Space", etc.
Also among the famous writers of the detective genre is Leonid Slovin. He wrote the works: "Extra Arrives on the Second Path", "Crazy Life on the Dark Side of the Moon", "Midnight Detective". In co-authorship with Georgy Weiner, he created a literary script for the film Code of Silence: The Trail of a Black Fish.
