Sasha Sim

Sasha Sim (literary pseudonym (real name - Oleksandr Holovko) was born in the small village of Chapline in the Dnipropetrovsk region on November 21, 1953, on the day of arch-strategist Mykhailo, in the family of a cobbler. The family of Holovko originates from the village of Pokrovske in the Dnipro region, which since 1760 was the winter colonel of Zaporizhzhya Sichi Holovko, and in which he settled after the dispersal of Sichi by Kateryna Ⅱ in 1774.

He graduated from the Taganrog Radio Technical Institute, the Moscow Institute of Patent Studies and the St. Petersburg University of Finance and Economics (FINEK), in 1990 he defended his candidate's thesis. Candidate of Philosophical Sciences.