Василий Захарченко
Захарченко, Василий Дмитриевич
August 1, 1915 – October 22, 1999 (aged 84)
Birth place: Petrograd, Russian Empire
Edited Moscow-based popular science magazine "Техника – молодежи" (Tekhnika - molodezhi) in 1949-1984. Published numerous science fiction stories and serials in the late 1950s-early 1980s. Fired in 1984 for serializing Arthur C. Clarke's "2010: Odyssey Two" deemed subversive by the government.