Evgeniy Veltistov

Yevgeny Veltistov was a Soviet writer and screenwriter. He was born into a military engineer’s family in 1934. In the second year of the Great Patriotic War, he started school. There were few books, and even fewer exercise books. He wanted to read very much. When asked what he would become, he replied: “A seller of children’s books. So I can read everything.” Later he changed his mind. He decided to become a journalist. It was a firm decision. He graduated from the Journalism Faculty of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov in 1956. He began working—first for newspapers, then as an editor in the popular magazine Ogonyok. He was in charge of feuilletons and various miscellaneous pieces printed on the last pages. He brought the manuscript of his first book to the Detgiz publishing house. Soon it was published. Others followed. A member of the USSR Union of Writers since 1966. Buried at Troyekurovsky Cemetery in Moscow.