Georgy Georgievich Demidov (1908–1987) was born in St. Petersburg. Physicist, worked at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology named after. Ioffe. In February 1938 he was arrested. In Kolyma, where he spent 14 years, Demidov met Varlam Shalamov and subsequently became the prototype of the hero of his story “The Life of Engineer Kipreev.” Demidov’s works are not just memories of prisons and camps, they are a deep philosophical understanding of life’s path, embodied in magnificent prose. In 2008 and 2009, the Vozvraschenie publishing house published the writer’s first books - the collection of stories “Wonderful Planet” and the novel “Orange Lampshade.” “Love Behind Barbed Wire” continues the publication of the literary heritage of Georgy Demidov in the “Memoria” series.