Butorin, Andrei Ruslanovich

Birth, education, and career

Andrei Ruslanovich Butorin was born on April 6, 1962 in the city of Monchegorsk, Murmansk Region , where he lives now. After graduating from high school in 1979, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation , which he graduated in 1985 with a qualification as an electrical engineer.

After graduating from high school, Butorin worked at the Smolensk plant "Measuring Instrument". Since 1987, he was an employee of the Severonickel plant in Monchegorsk, held the position of an electronics engineer in the Nickel Electrolysis Shop No. 2 (he worked on computers of the SM-2 family), and since the beginning of the 1990s, he worked as a PC software engineer . Since 1997, Butorin has been an employee of the Monchebank commercial bank (Monchegorsk), which since 2000 has become the Monchegorsk branch of Monchebank OJSC ( Murmansk ). In 2003, Andrei Ruslanovich returned to Severonickel, which became part of the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company . Butorin worked as a leading specialist at the Information Technology Center of this organization. He remained in this post from July 1, 2008, when the unit was withdrawn to a separate organization, InformKolaService LLC. Since October 1, 2013, after the division was returned to the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company and renamed into the “Center for Information Technologies and Automation of Production”, Andrei Ruslanovich still works as a leading specialist in it.

Early Creation

Andrei Ruslanovich Butorin began to engage in literary work even at school age. At first it was poetry , but Butorin did not take poetry seriously, considering it only "gymnastics for the mind." Butorin’s creations participated in competitions in local and regional newspapers, sometimes winning them, so the author received small prizes. In 1995, Andrei Ruslanovich became the winner of the “ Sadushki ” contest held by the Scandals newspaper, for which he received 100 US dollars as a prize, and in 2000 Butorin won first place in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper’s political ditty contest. winning a tv.

In the mid-1980s, Andrei Butorin began experimenting with prose for the first time. He writes the first, in his opinion, noteworthy work in prose - a short fantastic story “The Time Slit”, in the plot of which the main character tries to find his disappeared wife and realizes that time has stopped and there are no people left in the world except him and her friend, with which the hero accidentally meets ^[1] . Butorin did not plan to publish his first story in any way. An acquaintance of Butorin, after reading this work, gave Andrei Ruslanovich an order to write a fantastic story on an environmental topic and proposed a concept for the plot. As a result, Andrei Butorin wrote his second story, “Revenge of the Dead Lake”. According to the plot of the story, a mutant fish appears in a lake polluted with industrial waste , which eats people.

After writing the second novel, followed by a long break in the literary work of Andrei Butorin - about ten years. In the late 1990s, Butorin began to seriously engage in literary work, but nowhere does he publish his works - they are read only by relatives and friends. Soon, Butorin decided to submit his works for general viewing in order to hear criticism, which, in his opinion, improves the writer. He published his short stories on the Internet and received some positive reviews. Andrei Ruslanovich continued to write.

Literary activity

In the early 2000s, Butorin first sent some of his works to the editors of several fiction magazines. The first published story was “The Cosmonaut's Mother,” which was published in 2001 in the Star Road magazine. After that, there were even more than a dozen journal publications, including in foreign ( UK , USA , Canada , Ukraine , Latvia , Israel ) publications.

Butorin's first published novel was the book "Work on Errors (Puzzle)", prepared for publication in Donetsk "Stalker" and published in the Moscow publishing house " AST ". After that, various Butorin novels were published in various Moscow publishing houses as they were written. The writer took part in such literary projects as “ Universe Metro 2033 ” and “ STALKER ”.

Butorin is a participant in numerous competitions ("Torn Warmer" ^[2] , "Russian Ecuador" ^[3] , etc.). In 2006, with his selection of science fiction stories, he became a finalist of the national literary prize " Cherished Dream " in the nomination "The best work in the genre of science fiction or fantasy" ^[4] .

Andrei Ruslanovich also participated in the festivals of science fiction “ Silver Arrow -2008” and “EvRosKon-2008” ^[5] . At the Moscow festival of science fiction “Silver Arrow” in February 2008 he was awarded the medal of the Order of the Silver Arrow for winning the novel “Beyond the Land and Sky” in the nomination “Best Love Line” ^[6] .

Since 2009, Butorin is a member of the Union of Writers of Russia.

Published Stories

• “Cosmonaut's Mother” - the magazine “Star Road” ( Krasnogorsk , No. 9 - 2001), the collection “Hares on Mars” (“Krot”, Lipetsk , 2002);
• “Sensational Interview” - “Star Road” magazine (No. 2 - 2002);
• “Chapter No. ...” - the magazines “Technique-Youth” ( Moscow , No. 6 - 2002), “Black Square” (Great Britain) (No. 7 - 2003);
• “Returning Yourself” - the journal “Ural Pathfinder” ( Yekaterinburg , No. 4 - 2005);
• “Forty Pfustings” - the magazine “Norilsk Nickel” (Moscow, No. 5 - 2005);
• “Beyond the End of the Earth” - the journal “Technique-Youth” (No. 7 - 2005);
• “The Head of Professor DDD” - Norilsk Nickel magazine (No. 6 - 2005);
• "Bride's Tiara" - "I" magazine ( New York , USA , No. 21 - 2005);
• “To be able to hear” - the magazine “Technique-Youth” (No. 1 - 2006);
• “One Lesser Meanness” - “I” magazine (No. 5 - 2006);
• “Forum” - “Your Circle” magazine ( Montreal , Canada , No. 10 - 2006);
• "Yalokin" - the journal "Technique-Youth" (No. 1 - 2007);
• “Three Whales” - the magazine “OPEN!” (Moscow, No. 26 - 2007);
• “Therapeutic course” - the magazine “Knowledge is Power: Fiction” (Moscow, No. 2 - 2007);
• “Metamorphoses” (the author’s name is “Maybe”, co-authored with A. Perfilieva) - the journal “OPEN!” (No. 27 - 2007);
• “Dream and the Sun” (the author’s name is “Love the Dream”) - the magazine “OPEN!” (No. 28 - 2008);
• “Aberration” - the magazine “Young Technician” (No. 7 - 2008);
• “Kommunalka” - the journal “Technique of Youth” (No. 8 - 2008);
• “Yellow Aspid” - the magazine “Knowledge is Power: Fiction” (No. 4 - 2008);
• “Blowing dust” - the magazine “Young Technician” (No. 5, 6 - 2009);
• “Luba” - the collection “Meeting Point” (“Snowball”, Riga , 2009);
• “Bride's Tiara” - collection “The City Factor” (“Astrel”, St. Petersburg , 2009);
• “Miracles do not happen” - the collection “The Burden of the Prophet” (“The Milky Way”, Jerusalem , 2010);
• “The tract of Fiery spirits” - the collection “When the oil ran out” (Astrel-SPb, St. Petersburg , 2010);
• “Digital Friend” - magazine “Young Technician” (No. 3 - 2010);
• “Twice Alive” - the anthology of science fiction “Fantascope” No. 001 (2010);
• "Hum" ("Total Blood") - If magazine (No. 12 - 2010).

Published stories

• "Shell" - a collection of "Fiction. Competition "Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents". Autumn 2004 ”, publishing house“ Socio-Political Thought ”(Moscow), 2005;
• “Letter to Nowhere” (“E-mail novel”) - Amadeus Publishing House (Moscow) - literary magazine, series “On the Other Side”, No. 9 (23), 2006;
• “Three times into one river ...” - Amadeus Publishing House - literary magazine, series “On the Other Side”, No. 18 (32), 2006;
• "Confused Souls" - Amadeus Publishing House - literary magazine, the series "On the Other Side", No. 24 (38), 2006;
• “Name for the Unborn” - Amadeus Publishing House - literary magazine, series “On the Other Side”, No. 29 (43), 2006.

Published novels

• “Work on the bugs (Puzzle)” - “AST” (Moscow) - “Stalker” (Donetsk), 2004;
• “Heir to the Throne” - “Alpha Book Publishing House” (Moscow), 2005;
• “Beyond the edge of the earth and sky” - “AST” - “Stalker” (Donetsk), 2007;
• “Miracles do not happen” - “The World of the Book” (Moscow), 2007;
• “Metro 2033. North” - “AST: Astrel” (Moscow) - series “ Universe Metro 2033 ”, 2010;
• “Wedge” - “AST: Astrel” - series “ STALKER ”, 2011;
• “Metro 2033. The Siege of Paradise” - “AST: Astrel” - series “Universe Metro 2033”, 2011;
• “Stronger than pain” - “Fantaversum” (Moscow), 2012;
• “Metro 2033. Daughter of the heavenly spirit” - “Astrel” - series “Universe of the Metro 2033”, 2012;
• Wormhole - AST, 2013;
• "Metro 2033. Mutant" - "AST" - a series of "Universe Metro 2033", 2014;
• “Play or die” - “AST” - a series of “Rose of the Worlds”, 2015;
• “Fallen into the Zone. Forced landing ” -“ AST ”-“ STALKER ”series, 2015.

• Andrey Butorin. Metro 2033: Siege of Paradise. - Astrel , 2011. - ( Universe Metro 2033 ). - 70,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-271-39438-6 .

• Official site (inaccessible link)
• Autobiography on the official website (inaccessible link)
• Works by Andrei Butorin in the Aldebaran Library ; (inaccessible link)
•   - Andrey Butorin in LiveJournal
• Andrei Butorin in the Milky Way magazine .