Yuri Nikitin

Who is Yuri Nikitin?

Yuri Aleksandrovich Nikitin, born November 30, 1939 in Kharkiv, USSR, is a famous Russian science fiction and fantasy writer.

Although he was active in science fiction before perestroika, he became famous when he wrote a Slavic fantasy novel, The Three from the Forest. One of the protagonists is a character based on the Russian Rurikid Prince Oleg, who is a mainstay of many sequels. Nikitin also wrote a couple of novels about Vladimir I of Kiev. Nikitin created a website called Inn as a community portal to help young writers.

Nikitin's books have a distinct, free, and often intentionally primitive and repetitive style with many jokes, reflecting his intent to keep the reader on topic and carry his ideas through. His later books develop the ideas of becoming a Transhuman through self-development and survival of the spiritually fittest.