The detective genre in Soviet times was especially popular among readers. Some works have been filmed. The most famous authors are Arkady and Georgy Vaynery, Arkady Adamov, Vil Lipatov, Julian Semenov, Leonid Slovin and others.
Viner brothers
Arkady Aleksandrovich Weiner, the eldest among the brothers, was born in Moscow on January 13, 1931. He graduated from Moscow State University, faculty of "Law". Arkady worked as an investigator, then he was promoted to the head of the investigation department of the MUR. He, along with his younger brother, Georgy Alexandrovich, wrote many famous detective works, the plots of which he took from his own forensic work.
Georgy Weiner was born on February 10, 1938. In 1960 he graduated from the correspondence faculty of the Moscow Law Institute. The brothers were brought to fame for the watches for Mr. Kelly, The Cure Against Fear, Groping at Noon, Visit to the Minotaur, Racing Vertical, Hangman's Gospel, Era of Mercy and Loop and Stone in the green grass "dr. The brothers also wrote scripts for movies and theater plays. The popular film “The meeting place cannot be changed, ” directed by Stanislav Govorukhin, is based on the brothers' work “Era of Mercy”
Julian Semenov
The Soviet writer in the genre of "journalistic investigations" Julian Semenov was born on October 8, 1931. He is known as the author of works about Isaev-Shtirlitsa, which made the famous film “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, about police colonel Vladislav Kostenko - “Petrovka 38”, “Confrontation”, “Ogarev 6”, state security colonel Vitaly Slavin - “TASS authorized state. " The author also wrote historical novels-versions of "The Death of Peter I", "Stolypin's Murder", "Alias", "Guchkov Syndrome" and "Scientific Commentary".
Yulian Semenov was the president of the International Association of Detective and Political Romance, the author and editors of the almanac and television program Top Secret, and the editor-in-chief of the Detectives and Politics publication.
