Nikolai Ivanovich Koroteev - member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. Born in Kalinin. By education, a physician. In 1956 he defended his diploma at the A. Gorky Literary Institute. He began to print in 1949. He worked in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda," magazines "Around the World" and "Seeker." The main theme of creativity is man and nature. He wrote several adventure stories - "Shot in the taiga," "Fire trap," "The story of Yakut diamonds." The author is also interested in the military theme - the stories "Spain in my heart," "When in trouble on the chest" and others. The story "Cyclone over Sarydzhaz" is dedicated to the Chekists of Kyrgyzstan who worked during the Great Patriotic War. "Typhoon Wing" is a work about the district police inspector Semyon Shukhov, his fight against poachers in the Far Eastern taiga.