Svyatoslav Vladimirovich Sakharnov was born on March 12, 1923 in Ukraine in the city of Artyomovsk, but considers Leningrad-Petersburg to be his hometown. In 1944 he graduated from the military school named after M.V. Frunze, took part in two wars. After the war he continued to swim, was a navigator. "I knew that I would be a children's writer from the second grade... He came to the house of Vitaly Bianchi, became his student, books went. He started with "Sea Tales," - the writer himself recalls. He began to print in 1954.