Laptev, Alexander Konstantinovich

Alexander Konstantinovich Laptev was born on December 26, 1960 in Irkutsk .

In 1983 he graduated from the Physics Department of Irkutsk State University.

From 1989 to 1994 he studied at the correspondence post-graduate course of the Russian Institute of Powerful Radio Engineering in St. Petersburg. On June 22, 1994 he defended the dissertation of a candidate of technical sciences. He has ten publications in scientific journals of the former Soviet Union (for example, in the journal Izvestiya Vuzov SSSR ).

Since 1991, he began to engage in literature.

In November 1993, he won the regional conference “Youth. Creation. Modernity".

In February 1994 he was admitted to the Union of Writers of Russia.

From June 1, 2001 to July 31, 2006, he was Chairman of the Board of the Irkutsk Regional Writing Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia (since 2002, the organization received the status of the "Irkutsk Regional Branch of the Russian Joint Venture").

As a writer, Alexander Laptev works in two genres: science fiction and documentary prose. In his works he professes the ideas of positivism and scientific and technological progress, develops the ideas of Herbert Spencer , Teilhard de Chardin , Henri Bergson , Charles Snow .

Moscow critic A. Trapeznikov describes the creative manner of Alexander Laptev in such a way: “... But Laptev himself is not occupied by a human machine (then, of course, as the creation of artificial intelligence is the philosophical and moral aspects of this problem), but rather human emotions , passions, experiences, that is, those feelings that are the contour of the soul. And the soul is already the prerogative of Russian literature, and it doesn’t matter whether you are a science fiction writer or a realist. Not because Russian literature is all so good and infallible, but it is a tradition based on the works of Lomonosov, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. This is what is of interest to Laptev’s prose - an attempt to see the person of the future in his nature, with his love and suffering, with all new (or old?) Moral values. In this case, of course, the writer creates the appropriate technical surroundings. But what about without starships? That's why it's fantastic ... ". ^[1] The writer Gleb Goryshin, in the preface to Laptev’s first journal publication, wrote the following: “... Read the story of Alexander Laptev and you will find yourself in a world of true feelings, inspiration, suffering, in a world of expertly selected words reminiscent of Andrei Platonov’s prose”. ^[2]

In 2005, Alexander Laptev was included in the list of fifty leading science fiction writers of Russia. ^[3]

Alexander Laptev actively advocates for Lake Baikal, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2005, he prepared and published an open letter from Irkutsk writers to Russian President VV Putin (the newspaper Tribuna. East Siberia), in which he expressed concern about the planned construction of an oil pipeline along the northern tip of Lake Baikal (signed by Valentin Rasputin, as well as other writers of Angara). After numerous public protests, this project was rejected by the president.

In 2009 and 2010, Laptev published two articles in Literary Russia sharply condemning the plans of the federal and regional authorities to resume the BPPM work on an open cycle. After that, Literary Russia disappeared from Irkutsk newsstands, which gave the newspaper’s editors an opportunity to send an open letter to the governor of the Irkutsk region ^[4] ; and at the end of May 2010, the regional writers' organization received an order from the Federal Property Management Agency demanding the release of the premises of the regional House of Writers, which it had occupied for the past 30 years ^[5] .

Chief editor of the literary magazine " Siberia ".

Member of the creative union Shiva-club since 2009.

• The story "The Sky above the City", the journal "Aurora", No. 11, 1995, St. Petersburg (with a foreword by Gleb Goryshin).
• Fantastic novel "Stardust", the magazine " Siberia ", No. 1, 1999, Irkutsk.
• Fantastic novel “And then I said: I agree”, literary and artistic almanac for young people “Primrose”, 2001. - 122 pp., Ill., Irkutsk.
• “Stories about Karate”, the magazine “Day and Night”, Krasnoyarsk, 2005, No. 9-10 .
• The story "How I worked as a security guard," Roman-Gazeta magazine, No. 8, 2003, Moscow.
• Fantastic novel “Pious lawlessness”, literary and artistic almanac for the youth “Primrose”, 2003. - 162 pp., Ill., Irkutsk.
• The story "The Devil's Dozen", literary almanac "LITROS", No. 5, 2004, Moscow. ISBN 5-7809-0059-0 .
• “Fortress of character”, “First training” , “Caucasian” and other stories about karate, “Literary Russia”, No. 49 dated 03.12.2004
• Invincible, a fantastic story, The World of Fantasy magazine , Moscow, No. 11, 2007.
• “What the dead man was silent about”, science fiction novel, magazine “Milky Way” , 2009
• "Traitor", a fantastic story, the Milky Way magazine .
• “Wonderful planet”, a fantastic story in the children's magazine “Siberian” (Angara writers - for children).
• “Something” is a fantastic story, journal RBJ-Azimut 13/10.

• "Toys for adults". Hanna Concern Publishing, RBG-Azimut, 632 pp., ISBN 978-1482020649 .
• "Point of no return." Hanna Concern Publishing, RBG-Azimut, 632 pp., ISBN 978-1496108425
• "The door that was not there." Hanna Concern Publishing, RBG-Azimut, 600 pp., ISBN 978-1468110555 .
• "RBJ-Azimuth 2010". Hanna Concern Publishing, RBG-Azimut, 648 pp., ISBN 978-1456413019 .
• Chiaroscuro (Baltimore, USA) ISBN 145-3-87467-4 (authors: A. Albov, P. Amnuel , S. Bukina, I. Goldin, Yu. Gofri, E. Dobrushin, V. Zubareva, I. Kadin , S. Kaminsky , V. Kontrovsky , A. Laptev, S. Lysenko, E. Sosnina , A. Tarnoruder, E. Hal, I. Hal, V. Shimberev, L. Shifman, I. Schlosberg )
• "An adventure called life." Hanna Concern Publishing, RBG-Azimut, 608 pp., ISBN 978-1449966713 .
• "Tomorrow will be the wind." Hanna Concern Publishing, RBG-Azimut, 720 pp., ISBN 978-1453655788 .
• The collection of winners of the international competition of a short science fiction short story “GALILEY”, Ukraine, Kharkov, 2007.
• "New Irkutsk wall." Publishing House "Business Weekdays", Irkutsk, 2004, 648 pp., ISBN 5-94644-019-5 .
• "The whole untruth of the universe." Publishing house "Helikon-plus", 2002, St. Petersburg. 536 p. ISBN 5-93682-101-3 .
• "Tobolsk and all Siberia." Graphic Publishing Company, Verona, Italy. ISBN 5-7235-0273-5 .

• "How I was ...". Novel. Hanna Concern Publishing and publishing house of the journal RZHB-Azimut, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-4536-4369-3 . ^[6] Foreword by I. Schlosberg
• Siberian Vendetta. Novel. Hanna Concern Publishing and publishing house of the journal RZHB-Azimut, 384 pp., ISBN 978-1-4536-6931-0 . ^[7]
• Stardust, fantastic stories and short stories. "East Siberian Book Publishing House", 384 pp., 1999, Irkutsk. ISBN 5-7424-0761-0 .
• “How I worked as a security guard”, “Irkutsk writer”, 2004, 128 p., ISBN 5-94644-017-9 .
• GOOD NEWS, fantastic stories and short story, 320 p. RENOME, ST. PETERSBURG, 2007. ISBN 978-5-98947-053-2 . ^[eight]

• “We Can't Predict”, “Review” (lit., editor Kaminsky, Semyon ), October 2010, Chicago, USA
• “Globalism on nationalism”, “Literary Russia” , No. 26 dated 06/25/2010
• "The generation of boors." Newspaper Literary Russia .
• “Is it really revenge?”, “Literary Russia”, No. 15 of 04.16.2010
• The article "Baikal is in danger." Newspaper Literary Russia .
• Incomprehensible and monstrous .
• “Solzhenitsyn and Russia”, “Moscow Komsomolets in the Angara Region”, 2009.
• “Mental Center of Siberia”, the magazine “World of the North” , 2009.
• "Pluto, rising from hell", "Moscow Komsomolets in the Angara region", 2008.
• “Literature without Borders”, “East Siberian Truth” of January 16, 2007
• Article “Science Fiction and New Political Thinking”, magazine “UNIVERSITATES. Science and education ”, No. 2, 2007 .
• “Russian language, imaginary and real problems”, Literary Russia , 2007, No. 21.
• "Irkutsk Syndrome", "Literary Russia", 2006.
• Fidelity to Vocation, Siberia Magazine, 2006
• An open letter from Irkutsk writers (A. Laptev, V. Maksimov, V. Skif, V. Rasputin, I. Komlev, T. Surovtseva, V. Sidorenko) to President V. V. Putin about the danger of building an oil pipeline off the coast of Lake Baikal. Newspaper “Tribune. Eastern Siberia, November 21, 2005
• “Seeking Miracles”, “Literary Russia” , No. 42 of 10.21.2005.
• “The Nightmare and the Charm of Totalitarianism”, Literary Russia.
• “Patriotism is a word that must be forgotten”, “Literary Russia”.
• [2] . Article "Spirit and Matter."

• Debut, Gleb Goryshin, Aurora, No. 11, 1995
• “Laptev, but not from the Laptev Sea”, Alexander Trapeznikov, Literary Russia, No. 37 dated 09/14/2007
• “Flight in the plasma”, Margarita Dyukova, “Siberia”, No. 3, 2000
• “Is it really revenge?”, “Literary Russia”, No. 15 of 04.16.2010

• Winner of the regional conference of Eastern Siberia “Youth. Creation. Modernity ”, in the“ Prose ”section, 1993.
• Laureate of the literary weekly "Literary Russia" in 2004 for a series of autobiographical stories (wording "For honesty in literature and life and for a series of talented stories").
• Winner of the fair world story contest . Moscow, in 2006 (More than 1000 stories of writers from five countries).
• Laureate of the prize “For Humanism and Charity” of the All-Russian Public Movement “Russia”, 2004 (with the wording “For a significant contribution to building a social state in Russia, solving social problems and social protection issues, developing traditions and principles of mercy, philanthropy and charity ”).
• First place in the competition to them. I. Varshavsky "Warm-up", 2009 the story "The Adventures of Ivan Ivanovich . "
• Laureate of the prize of the governor of the Irkutsk region for achievements in art and culture (2012) - for the creation of the anthology "Irkutsk. Running of time ” (as part of the creative team) ^[9] .