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SOVIET LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE




IVAN VEFREMOV




THE LAND OF FOAM



FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE


Moscow


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. HANNA


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In 1922, when Ivan Yefremov, at the age of 16, passed his matriculation
examination in Petrograd, it is doubtful whether he even thought that one
day he might become a writer.
He had been early left an orphan and went through the Civil War as the
protégé of a Red Army Regiment. He had read many books, but the one
with the wonderful pictures and descriptions of strange animals had
always attracted him more than any other.
… Academician Sushkin’s study opened its doors to him without any
letters of recommendation – the Academician devoted the youngster the
hours torn from the days already packed tight with work; it was
something of great significance, something they both had in common,
that brought the fifty-five-year-old scholar and the sixteen-year-old boy
together.
In 1927 Ivan Yefremov published his first scientific paper A Description
of the Habitats of Ancient Amphibians. Other scholarly papers followed
one after another and in 1935 their author was granted the degree of
Candidate of Science. Five years later he earned the degree of Doctor.
His constant search for extinct animals had taken him to the Far North,
Eastern Siberia, Yakutia, the Urals, the Far East, Central and Inner Asia,
Mongolia and Western China -- always following untrodden paths.
In 1943 the scholar launched out as a writer of popular science-fiction;