Chimeras (Russian Edition)

50 years of the Soviet history (1930 - 1979) and the following 37 American years are reflected in the life story of the author of this book. But his narration embraces wide spectrum of topics beyond his own life: life stories of many other people - his contemporaries, the history of the Soviet aviation and rocketry, the world history, politics, arts... All of the above and more became a content of this extraordinary book.

Felix Aranovich was born in the Soviet Union in 1930 and emigrated to the US in 1979 after long years of being "refusenik." He is the author of the book "Nadgrobie Antokolskogo" ("Antokolsky's Tombstone"), published in the US by Hermitage, and short stories published by literary magazine Slovo/ Word. As an amateur artist he also is an author of a dozen of oil paintings. As a professional engineer he is an author of two inventions he made in the Soviet Union while he was working there on the rocket engines, and more then have a dozen of inventions made in the US during 34 years he had been designing here electro-hydraulic valves for machines like Caterpillar.