Alexander Volkov

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Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (14 June 1891 to 3 July 1977) was a Soviet novelist, playwright and university lecturer, born in Ust-Kamenogorsk in the Russian Empire, now Oskemen in Kazakhstan. He trained as a teacher at the Tomsk Teachers Institute, graduating in 1909, and taught mathematics in several places, including Kolyvan and Yaroslavl, where he was also a school principal. In 1929 he moved to Moscow, worked as head teacher at a rabfak, and later became a docent in higher mathematics at the Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold. He wrote novels, short stories, plays and children's poems, but is best known for the Magic Land series, a loose adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote five sequels, the last of which was published after his death. He died in Moscow at the age of 86.

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Books

• Волшебник Изумрудного города (1939) · Magic Land Core Canon
• Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты (1963) · Magic Land Core Canon
• Семь подземных королей (1964) · Magic Land Core Canon
• Огненный бог Марранов (1968) · Magic Land Core Canon
• Жёлтый туман (1970) · Magic Land Core Canon
• Тайна заброшенного замка (1976) · Magic Land Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 6 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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