Sever Feliksovich Gansovsky (Russian: Се́вер Фе́ликсович Гансо́вский; 15 December 1918 – 6 September 1990[1]) was a Soviet science fiction author.
In 1940 he entered the Leningrad State University, but in 1941 volunteered to join the army for the Great Patriotic War.
Gansovsky was seriously wounded in 1942, but survived, although his relatives were initially told that he had been killed in action and buried.
His first published work in that genre was The Guest from the Stone Age (Russian: Гость из каменного века; 1960).
Gansovsky was also famous for his illustrations, particularly to the first edition of Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's novel Snail on the Slope.
[4] "Vincent Van Gogh", published in Aliens, Travelers and Other Strangers: New Science Fiction from the Soviet Union, edited by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.