Soviet ukrainian science fiction writer and engineer.
Born February 15th, 1933 in Poltava.
Died January 24th, 2005 at 71 years old in Kyiv. [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel