Vladimir Rybakov

Vladimir Mechislavovich Rybakov / Wladimir Secinski (; 29 September 1947 – 20 August 2018) was a Russian writer.

Vladimir was born to émigré parents in Paris in 1947. He lived in the Soviet Union 1956–1972, including a hitch in the Soviet Army, and returned to the West in 1972, since which time he has been a journalist and a novelist with a historical bent. He spent much of the 1980s in Afghanistan, where, among other things, he interviewed Soviet soldiers captured by the Afghans. He spent 1989–1995 in Moscow and spent the last years of his life in Bulgaria, where he completed a huge historical novel about Genghis Khan. At the time of his death he was preparing a book on how Eastern and Western civilizations developed. Two of his books, ''The Afghans'', a novella about Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, and ''Creature'', a geopolitical thriller, have been published recently in English (2004 and 2005, respectively), and ''The Mystery of Genghis Khan'' is being prepared for publication. Provided by Wikipedia