Sergei Mikhailovich Belyaev (1883-1953), a doctor by profession, began to engage in literary activities in 1905. He wrote essays and stories, and after the revolution he collaborated with ROSTA. His first major work, “Notes of a Soviet Doctor,” was published in 1926. This was followed by the science fiction novels “Radio Brain” (1927), “2Z Fighter” (1939), “The Adventures of Samuel Pingle” (1945), “The Tenth Planet” (1945), “The Lord of Lightning” (1947) and others, which became The present is already the history of the formation of the science fiction genre, but has not lost its entertainment.