Schupov, Andrey Olegovich

Born and lives in Yekaterinburg. In 1981 he graduated from a specialized English school No. 99. He entered the Department of Electrical Engineering at UEMIIT (now the Ural State University of Railway Engineering ). As a university student, he participated (and won) in mathematical, English and other olympiads. In parallel, he traveled to the seas with expeditions, studied the flora and fauna of the Black , Japanese , Baltic and other seas.

In 1986 , after graduating from the institute, he worked for several years at the VNIIZhT (laboratory of the KTS PS). An engineer adjusting diagnostic equipment traveled around the country, created checkpoints DISK-BKVTS.

Literary debut is a fantastic story “There is Contact!” (Newspaper “Nauka Urala” No. 25, 1988). The first book publication is the stories “Close Your Eyes” and “Atavism” in the science fiction collection “Search-89” ( Sverdlovsk , Central Ural Book Publishing House ).

Since 1990 he switched to “free bread”, published in newspapers and magazines, worked as a guard, a loader, was engaged in construction, reviewed stories in the editorial office of the Ural Pathfinder magazine , tuned musical instruments, studied sports massage, was the director of a photo studio, worked as a magazine editor .

In 1994 , the first collection of literary works (novels and short stories) was published. Nominated for the Start prize , reached the final (in 1995 the Aelita festival was not held, so the prize was not awarded). In 1992 he became a laureate of the “DEM” award (for the novel “The Animal Circle”), established by Julian Semenov (award for the best Russian detective). Subsequently, periodically published in Russian publishers. In the period from 1994 to 2010, he published about three dozen books. He worked in the organizing committee of the Aelita science fiction festival . Organized photo exhibitions, wrote radio scripts.

His main hobbies are literature, scuba diving, parachuting, hang gliders. In 2002 he was admitted to the Union of Russian Writers , in 2003 he was elected to the board of the Yekaterinburg branch of the Union.

2008 : for the book “To the Left of the Sun” he received the national children's literary award “Cherished Dream” , for the same book he received the prize named after V. P. Krapivin . In 2009 - the Alice Award at the Roscon Festival for the book Savior of Urakand. The book "Adolescents before the Flood" brought the writer two more prizes in 2010 - to them. P. Bazhova and Tuning Fork ( Yekaterinburg ).

More than 200 articles, reviews, short stories, stories published in magazines: " Adventures and Fiction " ("PiF"; Yekaterinburg ), "Ural" ( Yekaterinburg ), "NEVA" ( St. Petersburg ), "Ural Pathfinder" ( Yekaterinburg ), "If ” ( Moscow ),“ Star Road ”( Moscow ),“ Southern Star ”( Stavropol ),“ Carelia ”( Petrozavodsk ),“ Gate of Siberia ”( Tyumen ),“ Threshold ”( Kropyvnytskyi ),“ Banzai ”( Yekaterinburg ) and others.

Married, two sons grow up.

Fantasy:

• "Corenkrayta Toys" (short story) // Well. Icarus No. 1, 1992 ( Yekaterinburg ).
• “The Cold of Maliogont” (collection). Yekaterinburg : "Thesis" (series "Inozemye"). 1994 .
• “What is worse than the plague” (collection). Kharkov : "Folio" (series "New Russian Science Fiction"). 1996 .
• “Hello from the Other World” (novel). Moscow : EKSMO (Absolute Weapon series). 1996 .
• "Child of Plasma" (collection). Moscow : EKSMO (Absolute Weapon series). 1996 .
• “Invitation to Hell” (novel, novel). Moscow : EKSMO (Absolute Weapon series). 1997 .
• “Dead Cry Tomorrow” (novel). Moscow : EKSMO (Absolute Weapon series). 1997 .
• “A Novel About Noah” (short story) // If magazine № 3, 2000 .
• “Children of Bread Times” (novel) // If magazine № 11, 2001 .
• “Flight of the Lizard” (novel). St. Petersburg : North-West Press (Galactic Patrol series). 2002 .
• "Time of the executioner." St. Petersburg : "ABC Classic" (series "Rules of the battle"). 2003 .
• “The Caretaker” (short story), the magazine “If” No. 12. 2003 .

Detectives, action, adventure:

• The Beast Circle (novels). Samara : "Sea otter". 1997 .
• "Hunting for wolves" (novel). Moscow : “Centerpolygraph” (Black Label series). 1998 .
• "Trap for the governor" (collection). Yekaterinburg : "Bookstore." 1999 .
• “The Duel” (novel). Moscow : AST-Press (a series of "Crime Thriller"). 2002 .
• “Double game” (novel). Moscow : AST-Press (a series of "Crime Thriller"). 2002 .
• "Hostages" (novel). Moscow : AST-Press (a series of "Crime Thriller"). 2002 .
• The Beast Circle (novel). Moscow : AST-Press (a series of "Crime Thriller"). 2003 .
• “The Sentence - Execution” (novel). Moscow : AST-Press (a series of "Crime Thriller"). 2003 .
• "Boomerang" (novel). Moscow : AST-Press (a series of "Crime Thriller"). 2004 .
• "Name of Death." Moscow : "AST", "Astrel" (series "Calcined by the Zone"). 2004 .
• Wild Tour (novel). St. Petersburg : “Krylov” (series “Men's Club: Crime Adventure”). 2005 .
• "Wild" (novel). Moscow : AST-Press (a series of "Crime Thriller"). 2005 .
• "Camp" (novel). Moscow : AST-Press (a series of "Crime Thriller"). 2005 .
• The Last Warrior (novel). Moscow : AST-Press Book (Crime Thriller series). 2008 .

Children's literature:

• "The Savior of Urakanda." Yekaterinburg : Socrates . 2008 (pseudonym Oleg Rain ).
• "To the left of the sun." Yekaterinburg : Socrates . 2008 (pseudonym Oleg Rain ).
• “Adolescents before the Flood”, Yekaterinburg : “Socrates . ” 2009 (pseudonym Oleg Rain ).
• “The Man of Deuterium”, Yekaterinburg : “Socrates” . 2011 (pseudonym Oleg Rain ).
• "The game of giveaways", Yekaterinburg : "Socrates . " 2013 (pseudonym Oleg Rain ).

Psychology:

• "Psychology of self-knowledge." Moscow : AST-Press. 2002 (pseudonym Pavel Artemyev ).

Play:

• Strelochka (mini-play): finalist of the Premiere play competition; Stage production ( Novosibirsk ); publication in a playbook. 2007 .

Audio book:

• "Dead cry tomorrow." Kharkov ; Edition in “Text Collection” by HarryFan, version 1.0, on CD. 1997 .

• Kuteinikova N.E. , Orobiy S.P. Formation of the reading competence of a schoolboy. Children's and teenage literature of the XXI century: textbook. allowance for general education. organizations . - Education , 2016 .-- 220 p. - (We study with "Enlightenment." "Enlightenment" - to the teacher). - ISBN 978-5-09-037518-4 .

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