Nina Katerli

Her father, Solomon Shmulevich (Semyon Samoilovich) Farfel (pseudonym "F. Samoilov", 1907–1985), was a documentary writer, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, lieutenant colonel, military correspondent for the newspaper On Guard of the Motherland of the Leningrad Front, holder of the Order of the Red Star.

Some of her works have been translated into foreign languages and published abroad in the US, France, Germany, Japan, China, Hungary, the Czech Republic and other countries.

In the early 1980s, another of her stories, “Chervets,” was distributed in samizdat, which depicts in a semi-fantastic form the existence of the Soviet research institute and touches on the Jewish question, which was forbidden at that time.

During the 1990s, Nina Katerli transitioned to writing psychological prose, penning narratives like "Heat in the North", "Kursaal", "Red Hat", "Diary of a Broken Doll", among others in this style.

Katerli wrote and published dozens of newspaper articles devoted to the struggle for human rights, the Nazi threat in Russia, and social and cultural problems.

Katerli's human rights activities are the subject of her documentary books “The Lawsuit” and “The Nikitin Case.

The reason for the lawsuit was Katerli's article “The Road to Monuments,” published on October 9, 1988, in the Leningradskaya Pravda newspaper.