Kir Bulychyov (real name Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko) is a Russian Soviet science fiction writer, playwright, screenwriter and literary critic. Historian and orientalist, falerist. Doctor of Historical Sciences. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1982). The pseudonym is composed of the name of the wife of Kira and the maiden name of the writer’s mother, Maria Mikhailovna Bulychyova. Kir Bulychyov is one of the most popular Soviet science fiction writers. His most famous work is a series of children's books about a girl from the future Alisa Seleznyova, who had a great influence on Russian popular culture. However, he also wrote a lot of science fiction for adults, scientific works and poems. Bulychyov’s books have been filmed more than twenty times - more than any other Russian science fiction writer.