Shpanov Nikolai Nikolaevich (June 22, 1896 - October 2, 1961) - Russian Soviet writer, screenwriter. Born in Nikolsko-Ussuriysky in the Far East in the family of a railway worker. He graduated from two courses of the Polytechnic Institute and the Higher Aeronautical School in Leningrad. He began to print in 1926. He was the editor of the magazines "Bulletin of the Air Fleet," "Airplane," etc. Member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1939 Nikolai Shpanov is the author of over thirty books, of which the most famous were "First Strike," "Arsonists," "War of the Invisible," etc.