Gennady Yakovlevich Snegirev (1933-2004) - Soviet writer, author of children's books. Books that were born from oral stories to their friends and comrades in the sports section became a matter of life. A friend - poetess Veronika Tushnova - took the stories to the radio. There they were immediately taken and put on the air. And at the same time, editors from Detgiz were looking for new interesting writers, they were advised to pay attention to Gennady Snegirev on the radio. His first book - "Inhabited Island" - about the fauna of the Pacific Ocean was published in 1954. Since then, there have been many books in different genres - stories, short stories, essays, which have enjoyed constant success and have been reprinted many times, because these books are amazing, filled with surprise and admiration for what they saw on numerous travels.