Andrey Bitov

The first childhood memories of Andrei Bitov are related to the blockade winter of 1941/42. Then there was an evacuation to the Urals, then moving to Tashkent. In school, he became interested in mountaineering, at the age of 16 he received the “Mountaineer of the USSR” badge. The love of the mountains led him in 1957 to the Leningrad Mining Institute to the geological exploration faculty. He began writing as a studen…