Russian philology
Others include Nikolay
Nosov with his books about dwarf Neznayka, Evgeny Veltistov, who wrote about robot boy
Electronic, Vitaly Melentyev, Vladislav Krapivin, Vitaly Gubarev.
Mystery was another popular genre. Detectives by brothers Arkady and Georgy Vayner and
spy novels by Yulian Semyonov were best-selling, and many of them were adapted into film
or TV in the 1970s and 1980s.
Village prose is a genre that conveys nostalgic descriptions of rural life. Valentin Rasputin's
1976 novel, Proshchaniye s Matyoroy (Farewell to Matyora) depicted a village faced with
destruction to make room for a hydroelectric plant.
Historical fiction in the early Soviet era included a large share of memoirs, fictionalized or
not. Valentin Katayev and Lev Kassil wrote semi-autobiographic books about children's life in
Tsarist Russia. Vladimir Gilyarovsky wrote Moscow and Muscovites, about life in pre-
revolutionary Moscow. The late Soviet historical fiction was dominated by World War II
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