Vasily Orekhov: biography and photos

Vasily Orekhov - the author of popular novels in the style of fantasy and science fiction, a very unordinary and peculiar personality.

Let's try to understand his biographical data, as well as in literary creativity, conquered the hearts and minds of many modern readers.

Aliases

Vasily Orekhov, whose books are becoming popular day by day, is a mysterious and original author. However, this characteristic applies to his works.

The first thing that is unusual in this talented person is his numerous pseudonyms.

Vasily Orekhov writes under false names, and assigns his pseudonyms to bright, distinctive features.

For example, Vasily Medianin is the creator of interesting stories and stories in the style of action, as well as the author of many literary articles, forewords and afterwords, reviews. Translator of many novels by Shackley and Saymak. Known for his bold controversial works "Night Monster" and "What to Do, Faust." He graduated from the theological seminary in Kiev and the University of Press in Moscow. At the moment he works as editor in chief in the department of fiction (publishing house "Exmo").

The next pseudonym of the writer is Vasily Orekhov, a science fiction writer in the genre of an action movie, famous for his fascinating novels of the "Stalker" series. Vasily Orekhov invested in this project his unrivaled talent and skill, depicting strong inimitable images and impressive fascinating adventures.

Real story

Who writes under these two pseudonyms, harmoniously combining a writer of different genres and forms, an interpreter and an editor?

The real name of this amazing, paradoxical person, who lives three lives at once, is Vasily Melnik.

According to official information, Melnik was born in November 1972 in the capital of the Russian Federation. Moskvich by birth and "according to the concepts," he spent his entire childhood in a big city.

Formation of creativity

The little Vasya had a dream - he wanted to write. He was attracted not so much by the creation of his own images, as by the reproduction on the blank sheet of something new - his thoughts, his reflections, his worldviews.

Therefore, in everything, no matter what a young person encountered according to his activity - be it computer games, periodicals, bookselling, - he sought to realize himself, to achieve some progress, to introduce fresh ideas and concepts.

At the age of twenty-eight, Vasily Ivanovich graduated from the State Press University, becoming a specialist in publishing and book trade. After that he worked as the head of the department of fiction in one of the largest private publishing houses in Russia - "Tsentrpoligraf".

Two years later, the young specialist took up the post of deputy editor-in-chief of the fantastic journal Zvezdnaya Doroga, but very soon this kind of activity bored the energetic and gifted Melnik, and he moved to the place of the leading editor of the science fiction department at Russia's largest publishing company, Exmo.

By virtue of his work, Vasily Ivanovich was constantly in touch with fantastic fiction. Therefore it is not surprising that at the age of thirty-five he wanted to test himself in this field. In addition, Miller already had a successful feather test - a few years before that he had made his debut with his fantastic story under the name of the Median.

The first books

The first Miller's work, signed by a pseudonym, was the story "The Last Hunt", printed in one collection of a fantasy-fighting genre. Then followed another book, written by Vasily Orekhov - "Zone of defeat". This work is interesting because it was written for the world famous series STALKER

STALKER

"Stalker" (abbreviation of English capital letters) - a series of games developed by the Ukrainian company in the genre of a first-person shooter, using elements of role-playing game and adventure action movie. In the process of a video game, the player perceives events through the eyes of the main character.

The game is based on battles using guns and throwing weapons. Through the management of his character, the player can improve in strength, agility and other abilities.

The Russian STALKER project is an inter-authorial series of the computer game of the same name. The authors who took part in the project needed to adapt their novel artistically to the video game scenario.

Obviously, the experience gained by Melnik in the online games industry helped him brilliantly cope with his task - to create a series of novels in the style of action in the literary and game project.

Fictional universe

Henceforth, most of the stories of Vasily Orekhov's works will refer to a fictional world, some anomalous Zone in which heroes live.

In the STALKER series of this fictional universe was the forbidden territory around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. After a terrible explosion horrific mutants and monsters appeared, the world is already beyond the control of the previous laws and regulations.

And here comes the fearless and strong Hemul, who knows how to penetrate the forbidden Zone, who has all the talents and abilities to win in a fierce battle and achieve what he wants.

The Hemul cycle

Vasily Orekhov creates a real superhero, possessing superhuman strength, skill and courage.

Hemul is a completely fictional character. Three novels of Orekhov are dedicated to him. He also appears in several other books of the writer.

What did Vasil Orekhov bestow on his hero? Books about Hemul depict before the reader a steep and successful adventurer, who often in difficult situations recalls a character from his favorite cartoon - ostrich. Replicas of this fictional bird support and encourage the protagonist in many of his dangerous adventures.

Through what tests will Vasily Orekhov conduct his character? "Line of Fire" (the second book of the trilogy about Hemul) will tell readers not only about the stalker's exploits, but also about his love affairs.

The protagonist of the main character is the stripper Dean, who is abducted by sinister forces because of Perimeter. To save his love, Hemulu has to return to the Zone and get to the block, where almost no one came back alive.

Other works

In addition to the cycle about Hemul, Vasily Orekhov created many other unsurpassed images and adventure stories. His action-dramatic novels, both personal and co-authored with other writers, continue to bother the minds and imagination of fans of a fantastic action movie. This is the "Starship Troopers", and "Mission Impossible," and "Iron Doctor," and "Factor of Aggression."

Many of Vasiliy Orekhov's books can not simply be read in hard copy, but downloaded to their mobile devices in fb2 format is an improved format for electronic versions of books where each element is described by its tags.

What works of the writer are available for such a modern reading? First of all, the entire series of STALKER, as well as individual works - "The Zone of Death", "The Last Hunt", "The Empire Strikes Back" ...

Books Orekhov Vasily, fb2 format including - and you can find on many sites of electronic libraries.

Current activities

What is now engaged in an unrivaled science fiction? In addition to writing books, Vasily Orekhov heads the department "Special Projects" in the publishing house AST. Shortly before that, he served as editor-in-chief in creating scripts for online games.

Having so much hypostases and creative tasks, Vasiliy Melnik is working tirelessly, trying to do his job in the best possible way.

For his contribution to the literary activity of Russia, the writer was awarded several prizes and incentives (in most cases for composing almanacs, anthologies and inter-author collections of a fantastic genre).

I very much hope that he will please us not only with new fantastic fighters, but also with lyrical fantasy novels, exciting computer games and high-quality translations of interesting foreign authors.