Russian philology
to Soviet soil. The first was Alexander Kolpakov with "Griada", after came Sergey Snegov
with "Men Like Gods", among others.
A specific branch of both science fiction and children's books appeared in mid-Soviet era: the
children's science fiction. It was meant to educate children while entertaining them. The star
of the genre was Bulychov, who, along with his adult books, created children's space
adventure series about Alisa Selezneva, a teenage girl from the future. 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
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