Vladimir Rybakov

Vladimir Rybakov

Vladimir Rybakov(born 1947) is a Russian writer.

Vladimir was born to émigré parents in Paris in 1947, lived in the Soviet Union 1956-1972, including a hitch in the Soviet army, and returned to the West in 1972, since which time he has been a journalist and a novelist with a historical bent. He spent much of the 1980s in Afghanistan, where, among other things, he interviewed Soviet soldiers captured by the Afghans. He spent 1989-1995 in Moscow and presently lives in Bulgaria, where he recently completed a huge historical novel about Genghis Khan. Currently he is preparing a book on how Eastern and Western civilizations developed.Two of his books, "The Afghans", a novella about Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, and "Creature", a geopolitical thriller, have been published recently in English (2004 and 2005, respectively), and "The Mystery of Genghis Khan" is being prepared for publication.Excerpts from and more information about The Afghans and Creature may be found at [http://www.geocities.com/hillcountryrussian] .


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