Yakov Solomonovich Pan is a Soviet science fiction writer and publicist. He created many of his works under the pseudonym I. Nechaev.
Pan Yakov Solomonovich - writer, publicist. He created his works in the style of science fiction. The writer died at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
Biography
Yakov Pan was born in October 1906. His family was large. Yakov's mother and father gave birth to 19 children, of which 10 survived.
But the boy was orphaned early, so he lived in an orphanage. But here, too, he showed his remarkable abilities and talent. Jacob had a penchant for the exact sciences. But then he did not have the opportunity to develop these skills.
When the young man studied at school, received an incomplete secondary education, he was noticed by Lunacharsky. The People's Commissar for Education invited the young man to Moscow. Here Yakov Pan graduated from the workers' school, and then immediately taught.
To get a higher education in his favorite specialty, Yakov entered the Bauman MVTU at the Faculty of Chemistry. Then he goes to work at the Karpov Research Institute.
At the same time, the author was published in technical publications. Then Yakov Solomonovich becomes the editor of a scientific journal. At the same time, he writes his works in a sci-fi style.
One of the first books published by the author "Mortonit". This is a fantastic story. At first, Yakov published it under his own name, but then he took the creative surname Nechaev. Further works of the author are published under this pseudonym. Pan was also the author of scientific essays, propaganda brochures. Before the war, he wrote a tome "Stories of the Elements", which was reprinted several times, including abroad.
Personal life
Also, before the beginning of the Second World War, Yakov Solomonovich got married. Rifka Kalmanova Kogan became his wife. In September 1939, the couple had a baby. The husband and wife named him Victor. Subsequently, Viktor Yakovlevich Pan became a famous mathematician, a specialist in the field of computer science. In 1977 he emigrated from the USSR to the USA, worked and taught here. In 1972, Viktor Yakovlevich married Lydia Perelman. But that was later.
Troubled time
The Great Patriotic War began. Yakov Solomonovich was not called up for health reasons. But he volunteered to join the militia. In the fall of 1941, Lieutenant Pan, along with his comrades in arms, fought near Lake Seliger, was a company commander. Yakov Solomonovich writes his last letters from here. In November of the same year, the volunteer was killed.
But many of his works remained, some of which were published after the end of the war. The writer did not manage to finish the fantastic story, which was called "The Kitchen of the Future."
But after the death of the writer, this work was published. Also saw the light of the story "White Dwarf" and other large and small creations of the technical prose writer.
