VLADIMIR SAVCHENKO (1933-2005) was a Soviet Ukrainian science fiction writer and engineer. He studied electronics engineering and worked in the Institute of Cybernetics in Kiev. He began his writing career in 1955, and became a leading figure in Soviet science fiction in the 1960s, especially after the publication of his award-winning novel Self-Discovery (1967), which explores the ethical problems that arise as we computerize consciousness.

// Red Star Tales. – Montpelier: Russian Life Books, 2015. – P. 24.