Born on 21 July 1934, in Moscow, Veltistov graduated from the Faculty of Journalism, worked in the press, at the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Veltistov's fame, lead author of Soviet children's science fiction series of works brought about a boy-robot Electronics, copies of student Syroezhkin - Electronics - the boy from the suitcase.
Tale-Fantasy (1964), Ressi - elusive friend (1970, 1971), The winner of the Impossible (1975), The New Adventures of Electronics (1984, recycling - 1988), the first two novels filmed popular telefilm.
Among Veltistov's other works related to science fiction are the story of a dead end, which gets fantastic "wish fulfillment", "Gum-Gum", 1970 (filmed in 1985), as well as the collection of stories, fairy tales - "A million and a day Holiday "(1979)," Class and extracurricular adventures extraordinary graders "(1985).
Among adult science fiction works are the story of the near future - "Sip of the Sun, Notes of programmer Snegova March "(1967), which tells of the arrival of the solar system alien computer controlled spaceship, and the novel "The Nocturne emptiness" (1988), describing the conspiracy of the imperialists that threaten humanity climate war, previously published along with the story in the previous one volume - a collection of "Nocturne emptiness.