Sergei Sokurov
Sergey  Anatolyevich Sokurov was born in Siberia on 9 April 1940, his parents were teachers. He graduated from the Lvov State University, 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”.