Sergey Anatolyevich Sokurov was born in Siberia on 9 of April in 1940, his parents were teachers. He graduated from the , 30 years worked as a geologist in the Carpathian region. At the same time he wrote works of fiction, poetry and journalism, which were included in 29 of his books published in Lviv and Moscow in 1975 – 2019. The main of them are “Stone Sea”, “Sign of the pure sun”, “Black hussar”, “Istoriada”.