Andrei Belyanin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Andrei Belyanin

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1967

Place of Birth: Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia

Profession: writer, poet, prosaist, science fiction writer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Andrei Olegovich Belyanin (born 24 January 1967, Astrakhan) is a Russian science fiction and fantasy writer, who wrote at least 15 novels with many of then selling over 2 million copies.
He is especially known for humour and parody in his fiction.
Belyanin's novels are mostly ironical chrono-operas, where the pun is based on anachronisms. Belyanin is married.
He had a son, Ivan, who was kidnapped in 2004 for sake of ransom.
Although the kidnappers were arrested a few days after, Ivan Belyanin was found dead, as they killed him at the day of the kidnapping.
The criminals, brothers Kirill and Ivan Kostylev, both were sentenced to prison.