Fyodor Dmitrievich Berezin (
Russian: Фёдор Дмитриевич Березин; Ukrainian: Федір Дмитрович Березін;[4] born February 7, 1960) is a
science fiction writer and politician. He has published 3 novel series, and 2 separate works, scoring him awards at the International Science Fiction Festival.
Fyodor Berezin was born Fedir Berezin in
Donetsk on 7 February 1960.[4][8] He lived there until 1977 when he entered the
Engelsanti-aircraft training school. He graduated in 1981 and served as an AA officer first in
Kazakhstan and then in the
Far East.
In 1991, Berezin left the military at the rank of
captain and currently lives in his hometown of Donetsk. He has worked as an entrepreneur and tried a multitude of different career fields such as mine construction. Married, he has a son and a daughter.
Berezin has been a professional writer since 1998. He is also the founder and chairman of "Strannik" (English: Wanderer), the Donetsk science fiction club.
During the
war in Donbas, he served as the Deputy Minister of Defense of the pro-Russian separatist region of the
Donetsk People's Republic in 2014.[11][12][5] In November 2014, he led an armed seizure of the Donetsk branch of the
Writer's Union of Ukraine, declaring the establishment of a new union of writers of the DPR.[13]
Attack on the Rocky Mountains (
Russian: Атака Скалистых гор)
Awards
1st place – Golden Caduceus – International Science Fiction Festival "the Golden Bridge" in
Kharkiv; nominated for the "Best Debut" award for the novel Ash (2001).
2nd place – Silver Caduceus – nominated for the "Series and Novels with Sequels" award for the novels Incoming Cataclysm and Parallel Cataclysm (2002).