In October 2018, the writer Kir Bulychev would have turned 84 years old. He was a renowned science fiction author, Ph. D., orientalist and screenwriter.
Family, youth and education of the writer
Igor Mozheiko (Kir Bulychev) was born in the capital of Russia in 1934. When Cyrus was five years old, his father left the family, and his mother tied the knot with a prominent Soviet scientist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences Yakov Bokinik, who was fascinated by scientific activities in the field of photography technology. In this marriage, the writer's sister Natasha was born. In 1945, Kir Bulychev's stepfather was killed during the final battles near Kurland. This happened two days before the signing of the act of unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.
When Cyrus graduated from high school, he became a student at the Moscow State Institute of Fine Arts. Maurice Torez. The first work experience was obtained by the future science fiction writer in the state of Burma. His first major work was in translation and journalism. He worked as a translator and correspondent, and two years later he left for his hometown to become a graduate student at the Institute of Oriental Studies. Cyrus continued to write for periodicals. His collection includes publications in such well-known magazines as Around the World and Asia and Africa Today.
Postgraduate studies were completed in 1962, and a year later, Igor Vsevolodovich Mozhaiko (aka Kir Bulychev) taught the history of Burma at his institute. Here, a couple of years later, he defended his first dissertation. And in 1981 he became a doctor of sciences. Scholarly minds love his writings on Southeast Asia.
Career and personal life
"Maung Joe Will Live" is the first literary creation by Kir Bulychev. It was a narrative story. In 1965 he tries himself as a science fiction writer. His "fantastic" debut was titled "Duty of Hospitality." He wrote it under a pseudonym, which he used only a few times. However, the main pseudonym that is firmly rooted in Igor Vsevolodovich Mozhaiko is "Kirill Bulychev". Subsequently, the pseudonym was shortened, and contemporaries began to dignify the great writer Kir Bulychev.
An interesting fact is that until 1982 no one knew who Kir Bulychev was. He was afraid that his work would not be taken seriously at his own institute, and he himself would be fired. Kir Bulychev in his entire life wrote hundreds of interesting works that have been published. He also translated the works of foreign writers. Interestingly, more than 20 of Bulychev's works were seen by the viewer in film adaptations. But the most popular for domestic viewers was the children's multi-part film "Guest from the Future". Awards were given to his script for the film "Through the thorns to the stars", as well as - "The Mystery of the Third Planet."
Bulychev was very fond of the characters he created, so he wrote not short works about them, but whole sagas. Thus, he created, as it were, a new trend in literary creativity, which was perfectly perceived by the reader and made the writer incredibly popular.
Fans fell in love not only with the heroes of stories about Alice, but also with books describing the fascinating and exciting life of an agent of the space fleet - Andrei Bruce. The books were titled Agent KF and Underground Witches.
Interest in the work of Bulychev did not disappear even in the crisis 90s. An interesting fact is that due to the fact that the magazine "If" published the works of Kir Bulychev, the magazine was saved from "inevitable death."
Personal life and the last years of the writer
The writer was happy in his personal life. His wife, a writer and illustrator, was named Kira Soshinskaya. She often worked on illustrations for her husband's books. In this marriage, the girl Alice was born. The heroine of the fantastic work "Guest from the Future" was named in her honor.
Kir Bulychev suffered from oncology for a very long time. As a result of many years of unsuccessful struggle with the disease, he died in September 2003 in Moscow. The last refuge of the great science fiction writer was the Miusskoye cemetery.
