Today we’ll talk about a writer named Sergey Burkatovsky. All books of this author, as well as his biography will be considered in the material. It will be a science fiction writer, game designer and general producer of Wargaming.net.
Biography
Sergei Burkatovsky was born in 1968 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the village of Bor, then lived in Tomsk. He graduated from the university with a degree in Theoretical Physics. after Sergey worked at the Kurchatov Institute, specializing in atomic energy.
In 1997, Burkatovsky Sergey Borisovich began his activities in the field of high technology. He is a leading developer of a computer game called World of Tanks and lives in Minsk. Burkatovsky is married, has two children, is interested in military history. He is even a member of the military-historical forum called VIF2NE.
Literature
Sergey Burkatovsky is a member of various literary associations. In particular, he is in the literary forum "In the whirlwind of time." In 2008, the author’s first book was published, entitled “There Will Be War Yesterday.” It presents to the reader a new twist on the classic plot of a failure in time. This work is called the most unexpected and piercing novel, which can be attributed to the genre of alternative history.
The plot will tell whether the modern man who fell in 1941 will be able to warn the Soviet leadership about the German attack, which should happen soon. Is it possible to prevent the tragedy of June 22 and rewrite the past? What is the price to pay for this? You will learn about all this from this work.
In 2009, Sergei Burkatovsky published his second work, entitled “War 2020. The First Space”. It describes another alternative reality. The author says that it would be if, after the Georgian-Ossetian clash in the United States, power passed to the Republican John McCain. In the story, he begins an anti-Russian campaign. The Russian government has allocated significant funds for the revival of the lunar program. As a result, an orbital station appears around the planet, and a small permanent base appears on it. By mid-2020, American politicians are feeling the loss of NASA's leading position in the space sector and decide to maintain the status of the United States as the main country in the world. For this, a multi-stage operation is being developed, the purpose of which is to provoke Russia into a new military conflict, which should unfold both on Earth near Kaliningrad and on the moon's surface.
Games
In addition to writing, Sergey Burkatovsky is actively involved in the development of the World of Tanks project. This is a client-based multiplayer online game. She is an arcade
tank simulator dedicated to the events of World War II. The development is carried out by the Belarusian studio Wargaming.net. Also in the project there are elements of strategy and shooter. The concept of World of Tanks is based on tank team battles in PvP mode. The game is actively distributed not only in Russia, but also in North America and Europe.