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Boris Zhitkov
Books and Stories
Boris Stepanovich Zhitkov (Бори́с Степа́нович Житко́в b.1882 — d. 1938) was a Russian author born in Novgorod. His fiction is enlivened by his many life experiences; he was a common sailor and eventually a ship's captain, a scientist, an explorer, a metal worker, a ship building engineer and physics teacher.
Most of his published work was for children.Select
a novel or story title to see the inventions from that work:
Microhands (Микроруки), Not known, 1931
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