Vladimir Stepanovich Gubarev (b. 1938) - Russian science fiction writer, playwright, journalist. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1978). Member of the CPSU since 1959. Graduated from the V.V.Kuibyshev Moscow Institute of Architecture in 1960. In 1962, the first book "Roads of the Universe" was published. Since 1966 he worked in co-authorship with science fiction writers V.A.Agranovsky, D.A. Bilenkin, Y. K. Golovanov, Viktor Komarov and artist Pavel Bunin under the collective pseudonym Pavel Bagryak. He worked as a journalist, also covering topical issues of science. On April 26, 1986, the first journalist was at the site of the Chernobyl accident - just a few hours after a series of explosions. Impressed by what he saw, he wrote the play "Sarcophagus", which was staged in 56 theaters around the world and was a huge success, especially in Japan. In Great Britain, the play won the Laurence Olivier Theater Award. Vladimir Gubarev is the author of many intellectual and popular scientific works on the problems of scientific progress, the responsibility of science and scientists to humanity. Vladimir Gubarev hosts the cycle of programs "Real Fiction" on the Kultura channel of the Russian Central Television.