Futurist writer and founder of Terra Fantastica, Nikolai Yutanov, 64 years old, St. He died in St. Petersburg. This was reported by TASS.
Yutanov was born in November 1959. Over the 64 years of his life, he managed to publish several dozen scientific publications, and from 1981 to 1990 he worked for ten years at the Pulkovo Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1989 he published the book “The Wolfman” and a year later the book “The Way of Deception”.
In 1991, the writer founded the Terra Fantastica publication, which published books by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Robert Zelazny, the Strugatsky brothers and other science fiction writers. Later he was the curator of the Russian Science Fiction Congress and the presenter of the literary awards “Strannik” and “Swords”. The author was the editor-in-chief of If magazine, which he founded, between 1991 and 2012.
The writer’s friend Alexey Krivtsov wrote on his page “in contact“The writer who died on December 23 had a heart disease.
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