Svyatoslav Vitman was born into a family of physicists in
Ussuriysk,
Russian Far East, then known as Voroshilov. Svyatoslav Vitman graduated from a secondary
vocational school specialized in chemistry and the
Faculty of Chemistry at Leningrad State University. In April 1974, Svyatoslav Vitman began participating in the meetings of a newly established seminar for young science fiction writers, led by
Boris Strugatsky. ==Bibliography==