Ivan Efremov - a writer who radically changed the face of Russian science fiction with a utopia novel about the distant future of the Earth "The Andromeda Nebula" this 2013, Ivan Antonovich Efremov would have turned 106 years old. He was very diverse in his work. Ivan Efremov's books were in many ways ahead of their time. He wrote not only science fiction and historical, but also esoteric works unusual for our literature of the sixties of the XX century, exploring the secrets of the subconscious, its connection with the creative principle in man and his genetic memory.