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'''Ivan Antonovich (Antipovich) Yefremov''' (also spelled Efremov), (1908-1972), was a famous Russian [[Speculative Fiction]] writer, a noted paleontologist, a sailor, and a social thinker. Born in 1908 in a timber merchant family, he had a pretty rough childhood. During [[Romanovs and Revolutions]] his parents divorced, and his mother moved with him from Saint Petersburg to Kherson in Ukraine, where she met a Red Army commander, married him, [[Parental Abandonment|and left her kids with an aunt]]. The said aunt soon died from typhus, and young [[Russian Naming Convention|Vanya]] (just 12 at the time) basically [[Promotion to Parent|had to care for his siblings]] alone. He soon banded with a Red Army regiment and [[Child Soldiers|fought with them]] in the Crimean Campaign of the [[Red October|Russian Civil War]]. After the war ended, he moved to Saint Petersburg again to continue his education and completed the school in just three years. In 1922, sixteen at the time, he added a year to his age to enter the Merchant Marine Classes to study as a navigator, to complete them also in a record time.