Kir Bulychev (Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko). 18.10.1934 — 5.09.2003. In 1957 he graduated from the Moscow Teachers Training Institute of Foreign Languages. He worked as a translator and the Novosti Press Agency correspondent in Burma, as well as correspondent for the magazine «Around the World» [«Vokrug Sveta»]. In 1962 he finished graduate work at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He began to write SF in 1965. He has translated numerous American SF stories into Russian. A screenwriter with more than 20 filmed works to his credit, laureate of the State Prize in 1982 for the scenario to «Per Aspera Ad Astra» [«Cherez ternii k zvezdam»] and the animated film «The Secret of the Third Planet» [«Tajna tretej planety»]. Winner of the Aelita award in 1997. "Last War, The" is the story about the space doctor Pavlish.
