In this article we will tell you who George Zotov is. Books by this author, his biography will also be the subject of consideration.

Education

Georgy Zotov is a contemporary Russian writer working in the genre. He was born in 1971, on March 1st. George is a historian by training. His specialty is Biblical Studies. However, for financial reasons, Zotov had to change the field of activity. Instead of studying the past, he began to write first about the present, and then about the future.

Activity

Georgy Zotov became a professional journalist, now he is the director of the department for foreign interviews and investigations in the Arguments and Facts publication. He speaks Serbian and English, speaks a little Arabic, loves to read scriptures and classical literature.

Creation

Georgy Zotov is a writer whose debut book is called The Element of Blood. It was established between 2004 and 2005. At the same time, the author's idea matured much earlier. Perhaps the idea would have remained unrealized if this creative person had not shared the plot with the director of the publishing house, with whom he had a close relationship. He highly appreciated the idea, convincing the aspiring science fiction writer to start working on a future novel. In 2007, the author's first book appeared in bookstores and received many enthusiastic reviews.

After the success of the debut edition, the prose writer decided to further develop the chosen theme. As a result, he created a series of literary creations called Hell and Heaven. It has been presented in three books. The cycle was completed by the work of the same name. The confusion about authorship and the writer's trademark also added to the popularity of Zotov's person and his works. There were rumors that this is the pseudonym of Pavel Volya, or Viktor Pelevin. There were also suggestions that several writers work under this brand at the same time. The birth of conjectures was largely facilitated by the isolation and natural secrecy of the science fiction writer. He talks little about himself. Rarely ventures into interviews. Avoid public speaking whenever possible.

Since 2008, Zotov has been working on the creation of a series of works "The End of the World", which included 3 books that further consolidated the success of the writer. Today, the work of the prose writer includes more than a dozen books, including non-serial works and the science fiction novel Moskau, published in 2012. A noticeable mark in the entire work of the writer was left by the disciplines that always interested him very much: religion, as well as history. Zotov's works can be called sarcastic thrillers in which real, occult and biblical characters coexist harmoniously, as well as outright fantasy with historical facts. Therefore, genre affiliation is often difficult to determine. Critics and readers attribute his works to the genres of mysticism, horror, science fiction and fantasy. And the author himself calls his work "alternative history". Zotov is not only a trademark, but also a creative pseudonym of the writer.

Bibliography

Now we will try to systematize the works that George Zotov created. The first series of books is called Heaven and Hell. It includes creations that can be attributed to the genre of heroic fantasy: "Demon Plus", "Minus Angel", "Blood Element". In addition, the work of the same name "Hell & Paradise" should also be included here.

The next episode is called "The End of the World". It includes two creations: "Apocalypse Welcome", "Apocalypse Welcome: The Last Judgment 3D".

Then, from the writer's pen, works came out, united in the Kaledin & Alice series. The first is called Seal of the Moon and is a heroic fantasy. The second - "Skull of Saturday", refers to the genre of horror and mysticism.

Next comes the Republic Night series. At the moment, it consists of one book of the same name, which represents the genre of horror and mysticism. The author's works were included in the collection "Detectives of the Underworld". Do not forget about another important book written by Georgy Zotov - "The Storyteller". It belongs to the genre of horror and mysticism. The author also created the following works that are not included in the cycles described above: "El Diablo" and "Asmodeus Pictures".

Plots

In The Storyteller, Georgy Zotov talks about the boy Ilya who died in the hospital. Death comes to him. However, he does not take him away, but tells tales. There are those who do not like the strange friendship of a child and a supernatural being. Among them there is someone stronger than Death.

The author decided to experiment and left the clichés of the usual genre literature. The novel "The Storyteller" is presented in the 1st person. We are dealing with an unusual presentation, previously uncharacteristic of the works of this writer. Before "The Storyteller" Zotov preferred the role of an impassive observer, with rare exceptions, including narration in the 1st person. The story on behalf of Death creates an unusual atmosphere, thanks to which readers are guaranteed to either feel sympathy for the hero, or, on the contrary, experience disgust for him.

Georgy Andreevich Zotov(January 12, 1990, Novosibirsk, USSR) - Russian football player, left back of Kuban.

Career

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- It's time, Count, it's time! shouted the adjutant.
Ordering to lead the horse behind him, Pierre went down the street to the mound, from which he had looked at the battlefield yesterday. There was a crowd of military men on this mound, and the French dialect of the staff was heard, and Kutuzov's gray-haired head was visible with his white cap with a red band and a gray-haired nape sunk into his shoulders. Kutuzov looked through the pipe ahead along the high road.
Entering the steps of the entrance to the mound, Pierre looked ahead of him and froze in admiration before the beauty of the spectacle. It was the same panorama that he had admired yesterday from this mound; but now the whole area was covered with troops and the smoke of shots, and the slanting rays of the bright sun, rising behind, to the left of Pierre, threw on her in the clear morning air a piercing light with a golden and pink hue and dark, long shadows. The distant forests that complete the panorama, as if carved from some kind of precious yellow-green stone, could be seen with their curved line of peaks on the horizon, and between them, behind Valuev, the big Smolensk road cut through, all covered with troops. Closer, golden fields and copses gleamed. Everywhere - in front, on the right and on the left - troops were visible. All this was lively, majestic and unexpected; but what struck Pierre most of all was the view of the battlefield itself, Borodino and the hollow above Kolochaya on both sides of it.
Above Kolochaya, in Borodino and on both sides of it, especially to the left, where the Voyna flows into Kolocha in the swampy banks, there was that fog that melts, blurs and shines through when the bright sun comes out and magically colors and outlines everything seen through it. This fog was joined by the smoke of shots, and through this fog and smoke lightnings of morning light shone everywhere - now over the water, then over the dew, then over the bayonets of the troops crowding along the banks and in Borodino. Through this fog one could see the white church, in some places the roofs of Borodin's huts, in some places solid masses of soldiers, in some places green boxes, cannons. And it all moved, or seemed to move, because the mist and smoke stretched all over this space. Both in this locality of the lower parts near Borodino, covered with fog, and outside it, higher and especially to the left along the entire line, through the forests, through the fields, in the lower parts, on the tops of the elevations, were constantly born of themselves, out of nothing, cannon, then lonely, now lumpy, now rare, now frequent clouds of smoke, which, swelling, growing, swirling, merging, were visible throughout this space.
These gunshot smokes and, strange to say, their sounds produced the main beauty of the spectacle.
Puff! - suddenly one could see round, dense smoke playing with purple, gray and milky white colors, and boom! - the sound of this smoke was heard in a second.
"Poof poof" - two smokes rose, pushing and merging; and "boom boom" - confirmed the sounds that the eye saw.
Pierre looked back at the first smoke that he had left in a rounded dense ball, and already in its place were balls of smoke stretching to the side, and poof ... (with a stop) poof poof - three more, four more, and for each, with the same constellations, boom ... boom boom boom - answered beautiful, solid, true sounds. It seemed that these smokes were running, that they were standing, and forests, fields and shiny bayonets were running past them. On the left side, over the fields and bushes, these large smokes with their solemn echoes were constantly born, and closer still, along the lower levels and forests, small smokes of guns, which did not have time to round off, flared up and gave their small echoes in the same way. Fuck ta ta tah - the guns crackled, although often, but incorrectly and poorly in comparison with gun shots.

PETRESCU SAID HE NEEDED ME

- Georgy, you are one of the few current Kuban players who have remained in the team since last season. What prompted you to do this in the first place?

- In fact, in the off-season I received several calls from Premier League clubs, but since I have a valid contract with Kuban, I did not even seriously consider these proposals. And when the team had just gathered at the base after the vacation, I already knew that I was staying. Petrescu immediately said that he was counting on me, and the leadership did not want to let me go anywhere. And since they are counting on me, I didn’t see the point in leaving somewhere.

- You spent only the spring part of last season in Kuban. What do you see as the reasons for the team's departure?

- Naturally, we ourselves could not achieve a result on the field, but another important factor was the chaos in the management and non-payment of salaries, constant changes of coaches and regular squabbles in the press. Someone always wrote bad things about us, everyone in the team read it, and since all the players have their own psychology, the players perceived this information in different ways. As a result, it turned out that Ufa, which escaped from relegation only in the last round after the victory over Spartak, was almost never written in the press, and the guys calmly prepared. And so much was written about us that all this negativity, coupled with other problems, fell on us in a big lump.

- In this case, how natural can you call the defeat from Tom according to the results of the play-offs?

“Personally, it hurts me to lose like that. We won at home, albeit not without difficulty, with a score of 1:0, and in the second match in Tomsk we failed to score a couple of chances at the beginning of the match, when it was possible to decide the outcome of the confrontation in our favor. But in these moments we were unlucky, then we conceded two goals, and in the end the referee did not count the goal of Volodya Lobkarev ...

- Igor Osinkin in an interview with our publication noted that he did not immediately find a common language with Felipe Santana. Does the Brazilian really have a complex character?

- In my opinion, this is a mega-positive guy. I don’t know what it was like to work with him from the point of view of a coach, but in training he constantly smiled, no matter what, and charged us all with a good mood.

- Another "winter" rookie of Kuban, Apodi, has now gone on loan to the Brazilian Sport Recife. Do you think he would be useful to the team?

- A good footballer, I personally liked him very much. At the end of the season, we played with him on the same flank, only I was a defender, and he was a midfielder, and it was comfortable for me to interact with him - he always worked to the end. I wish him good luck with his new club.

- In Russian football, after the disastrous Euro for us, the question of the limit on legionnaires has again become acute. So how do you feel about him?

- You can, of course, say that I am not a foreigner and therefore it is easier for me to get into the main team, but I think that the limit needs to be softened. At least return the "7 + 4" scheme that was used earlier. At the same time, clubs need to be clear about who they are buying. It is impossible for clubs and agents to make stupid money by bringing obviously second-rate legionnaires - foreigners are needed who have played, for example, a certain number of matches for the national team. In this case, those who have earned a place there will be included in the composition.

Let's get back to the past. Is it true that due to salary delays, the players even wanted to boycott the home match against Amkar Perm?

- How can I tell you ... Maybe we said it out loud, especially for the management, so that it would have an understanding: we need to pay wages. But there was no talk of really boycotting this match. Each of us is a professional, and we would not, due to the fact that we are not paid now, not go out on the field and tarnish our career. Suppose one of us went to another club, and they would say to him there: “Why do we need you if you boycott matches?”

- And how else did you try to reach out to the leadership?

- We mainly communicated through the captain Sasha Belenov and the head coach. As a rule, as far as I know, General Director Valery Statsenko contacted us, but he constantly promised us: next week we will pay, no, we will be next ... And so on in a circle. The debts were finally paid to us, but I don’t remember exactly when this happened.

- I wonder if in the spring part of the season, in your opinion, is it possible to single out any positive moments against the backdrop of hopeless negativity?

– I can’t say that there were many positive things. But personally, I liked how we played in the April match against Spartak on the road. I liked how the team played in terms of attitude - each of us wanted to win, and we fought for all the goals. That's just such an attitude in other fights we lacked. And if we evaluate the season as a whole, then the fans probably remember the 6-2 home victory over Lokomotiv most of all. I was still playing at Anji then, and when I saw the score, I was stunned.

- This summer Alexander Belenov, Sergey Karetnik, Svyatoslav Georgievsky and Mohammed Rabiu moved from Kuban to Anji. Do you believe in them in the new club?

- Karetnik and Georgievsky are, in principle, promising players, and it is quite possible that in a year they will be the leaders of the team. And Sasha Belenov is already strengthening at the moment, and a big one at that. What can I say if in Kuban for 5 years he played 143 matches without substitutions, and when he was sent off in the April match in Makhachkala, Sasha was very upset. Belenov has always exuded confidence as a captain both on and off the field. As for Rabiu, despite his severe injury, this is a 100% improvement for Anji in the near future.

- Rumors have been circulating for a long time that its owner Suleiman Kerimov is not very interested in Anji. Did you feel it during your six-month stay in the team?

- Didn't feel it. Everything that was supposed to go to the club from Kerimov, that is, funding and support for the football school, was carried out: the Anji Academy is constantly developing, and salaries were paid to us literally second by second. I don't want to talk about money, but in the winter I left a stable club for Kuban in order to play, and I have no complaints about Anji.

I SAW MKRTCHAN IN DONETSK MORE MORE THAN IN KRASNODAR

- You say that Anji is a stable club, but at the same time, Makhachkala residents could, in certain scenarios, fly out directly and not reach the joints ...

- Funding, believe me, is not a guarantee of a successful performance. At such moments, I always remember Nizhny Novgorod, which in the 2011/12 season in the FNL got to transitional matches, having six months of debt to the players. It turns out that people, in fact, played for the sake of their name, to be seen and invited to other clubs with more stable funding. That's why I marked Anji as a stable club, and not as a team with a set game. Just in the game, we had problems.

- Is it true that Yury Semin, who headed Anji at the beginning of the season, did not see you in the squad?

- When Yuriy Palych took over the team, I already had a valid contract with the club, and, probably, I didn’t prove to him at the training camp that I was a main team player. I can’t say that I played friendly matches well, these were not my best games at the training camp, so for Semin other players were stronger at that time. Personal conversation with Yuri Palych? Not all coaches communicate with the players, and Semin had to prove his worth on the field.

- The most notable figure in Anji last season was the Ivorian forward Yannick Boli, who scored 9 goals. What's wrong with this guy?

- Without exaggeration, this guy can create a goal out of nothing. Take, for example, the game with Kuban, when Belenov was sent off: Boli then earned a penalty after a simple clearance from his own goal. Yannick put his foot out, pulled out the outgoing ball, he was hit in the legs, and here's a 11-meter one. I am also familiar with Boli in the Ukrainian Championship, where they, together with the Brazilian Danilo, who later played for Kuban, scored about 50 goals for Zorya Luhansk in the 2013/14 season. I think Anji is very dependent on this striker, and in the new season he will certainly be the leader of the team.

- According to Yuri Semin, Anji lost where they should have won. Did the team really lack luck?

- Probably, at first we were not lucky, but then it slowly turned into a trend. Although, before the winter holidays, we did not lose three matches in a row, moreover, we took points from CSKA at home and defeated Lokomotiv and Dynamo away. And even though we had already left the last place in the table, I decided to go to Kuban. Why? Because, even though the team was then coached by Kamil Agalarov, all the same, the same players played in the first team as under Semin, and I was not included in this list. And at that time Sergey Abuezidovich Tashuev worked in Kuban, who knew me well, and he invited me to the team. And when the coach invites himself, it means that there is a chance that you will play.

- You have repeatedly left after Tashuev in the team that he accepted. If you suddenly call again, will you go?

- Naturally, this coach did a lot for me in my football career. Moreover, all the clubs to which he called me, namely the Belgorod Salyut, Donetsk Metallurg, Anji and Kuban, were promotions. I came to Belgorod from the collapsed Kuzbass, then went to the team of the Ukrainian Premier League, which I left only because of the war, and then ended up in Anji, which set the task of entering the Premier League. In Kuban, I also went for promotion, because in Anji I was sitting on the bench, and in Krasnodar I got into the main clip. But, as for your question, it all depends on where Tashuev will call me. If it is an FNL team, it makes no sense.

- Is it true that Sergei Tashuev’s relationship with the players deteriorates over time, as we observed in Kuban?

- I will say this: Sergei Abuezidovich is not the easiest character, and not every player, for example, will be able to remain silent when they shout at him, but this happened. Tashuev is a quick-tempered person, and it all depends on whether the player perceives criticism in his address or not. So in Kuban, some people simply misunderstood the coach.

- When Tashuev invited you to Donetsk with him, did you think about the proposal for a long time?

- Of course, since the level of the Premier League of Ukraine is higher than the level of the First League of Russia, this is not even discussed. There I had a chance to play against Douglas Costa, who is now at Bayern, against Andriy Yarmolenko and Evgeny Konoplyanka, top-level players, and I developed myself in the confrontation with them. Interestingly, I left for Ukraine after 3 months of being at Salyut, with which I had a valid contract, and in Belgorod they didn’t give me a penny at all. And after I left, 5-6 rounds later, Salyut withdrew from the championship draw.

- Did you at one time develop a methodology for how to stop Douglas Costa?

- This is an unrealistically fast and sharp football player who can throw the ball past you from a place and run away. He had to be met only when receiving the ball, and if you let him go at least a little bit, then that's it, wait one hundred percent for a serve or a hit in his performance. And, which is typical, at Shakhtar this could be expected not only from Costa. There, under Lucescu, there was generally a very even and strong team, and I think that in Zenit he will be able to assemble a combat-ready team. Unless, of course, in St. Petersburg they will let him work in peace. I think Lucescu should be given at least a couple of seasons.

- When you came to Metallurg, was the club no longer needed by anyone?

- No, Metallurg was then a club with good funding and a small but constant number of fans. Of course, when a team like Shakhtar plays with you in the same city, it's hard to count on crazy support, but we had our loyal fans who went to every home game. And the money was paid to us on time for a long time, and the club started having problems because of the war. Taruta, the main investor, could no longer sponsor the club, as the main sources of his income - factories and mines - were taken away from him. At the base where we trained, the militia now lived and, as far as I know, they live to this day. As a result, there was no way to maintain this club, and the option of merging with Stal from Dneprodzerzhinsk, which now plays in the Premier League, had to be accepted.

- Another sponsor of the club, Oleg Mkrtchan, who until recently was the main shareholder of Kuban, was seen more often in Donetsk than in Krasnodar?

– To be honest, yes, much more often. In the 2013/2014 season, when we took sixth place and qualified for the Europa League for the next season, Mkrtchan came to our dressing room after every home match, and almost never appeared in Kuban.

- What are the fundamental differences between the Ukrainian and Russian Premier Leagues?

- There are no such big differences as, for example, between the Russian and English leagues. If we compare the same Zenit and Shakhtar, the level of players was approximately the same, and in terms of the level of funding for most teams, everything was also the same. But now, of course, after the war, there is an abyss between these championships. Previously, there were four teams in Ukraine that fought for something, namely Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar, Dnipro and Metalist, and at the moment there are only two.

FAVORITES IN FNL WILL BE VERY HARD

- Surely, during the period of playing for Metallurg, you most of all remember the games with Dynamo Kyiv, right?

- If we talk about those matches, then in the first round we lost 1:9, but in the home game we won 2:1. In fact, most of all I remember not even those matches, but the away game against Shakhtar. We lost 1:2, but at the Donbass Arena there was an unreal atmosphere at that time: there were almost 30,000 spectators in the stands! In Russia, I have never played with such support. By the way, I remembered another difference between the championships of Russia and Ukraine - stadiums. After the Euro, a fantastic infrastructure remained there, and it is a pleasure to play at the Olimpiyskiy in Kyiv, the Donbass Arena, the Lviv Arena and the Dnipro Arena. In addition, almost every club had its own brand new bases, and the teams of France and Ukraine lived at our base during the Euro.

- Do you think that Shakhtar and Dynamo have radically different playing philosophies?

– Yes, definitely. Shakhtar, for example, liked to open up other people's defenses with their flanks, and as a full back in the matches against the Pitmen, I was under a lot of pressure. And the people of Kiev preach combinational football more, which was especially felt when we lost 1:9. Although I think it was a pure misunderstanding: we had a great first half, but after the break, the ridiculous removal of our player gave the hosts an advantage. The statistics of that match are very revealing: the people of Kiev had 11 shots on our goal during the match, 10 of them on target and 9 goals. I will never forget this statistic.

- Which of your former Metallurg partners impressed you more than the others?

- I remember the Brazilian Alex Da Silva, who took free kicks like a hand. He made such accurate crosses at 30-40 meters that he was an indispensable person in the team in terms of set pieces. In general, there are few such players, and in Russia I consider Alexander Samedov a master by standards: he clearly delivers where he wants. In Kuban in the spring, we really lacked such a master, since in modern football a large percentage of goals are scored from set pieces. For Petrescu, their execution is important, and we are working very hard on set pieces.

– You have played with your current partners in Kuban Yuri Dyupin, Maxim Zhitnev and Roman Kontsedalov in other teams. It helps?

- It helps, of course, because you have already communicated with these players before, you already know what kind of players and people they are, how they behave outside the football field. Those guys I know are professionals in their field, and I think we will show the desired result this season. I really like the team that we have now picked up.

– The favorites of the season are Dynamo, Kuban, Mordovia and Tosno...

- Of course, these four teams are good in terms of composition, but I think there will be no easy and passing games this season. Everyone now knows how to play football, and it will be very difficult for the favorites.

- FNL is considered a very difficult tournament. You, as a person who plays in this league for the second season in his career, what do you see as his difficulty?

- Firstly, the games in the FNL are held in three days on the fourth, there are a lot of them, that is, between matches we do not train as much as we recover. Secondly, the level of its participants. There are middle-class teams, such as Luch, with whom we played - for such teams it is not shameful to stand with the whole squad in their own half of the field and fight back in the hope of a draw. In fact, you don’t play football with such opponents, but you try to open someone else’s defense for all 90 minutes – in the Premier League, of course, there is no such thing. Third, travel. Departure to Nalchik for us was the closest in distance, but we traveled by bus for 8 hours! This is the same if we fly to Khabarovsk for the same amount of time.

- Are there any advantages for the FNL compared to the same Premier League?

- Perhaps, except perhaps the constant tone of the players due to the lack of pauses in the calendar. In the Premier League, we played one match a week, and in principle this is normal, but when it was time for European cups and international matches, there were pauses. And if you are not a player of a top club or a football player of the national team, then you are out of the rhythm of the game for 10 or even 20 days, and many teams, in order to somehow maintain the tone of their players, arrange mini-gatherings during these periods . And in the first league, as the schedule was in three days, it will be so.

- For you, as a native of Novosibirsk, will the games with Sibir be fundamental?

- Not. Although I myself am from Novosibirsk, I have never played in Siberia and I don’t feel anything for this club. Only a match in my hometown will cause special emotions, since my relatives and friends will come to the stands, and there will be a desire to show a good game.

- Actually, why did you choose football in Novosibirsk, and not hockey, which is more popular in the city?

- I didn’t even try to play hockey, initially I was most successful in playing football. My father was also in favor of sending me to the football section, he saw that I had abilities. In general, the family supported my decision to go in for sports, and when I started to succeed, they all decided together: why not try? As a result, he connected his life with football.

- You did not immediately come to the position of full-back?

- I have always played on the flank, but initially as a winger. I switched to defense already in Kuzbass from Novokuznetsk, where I moved in 2013 from Lokomotiv-2. But I didn’t feel much difference, since modern laterals often perform the functions of midfielders, only the amount of work for me has grown. Speed? I don’t consider myself a slow player, but, of course, there were people who run much faster than me. This must be taken into account when preparing for a particular match.

- When did you find out that Spartak was interested in you, and were you not afraid to fly across the country to see the red-and-white academy?

- I was invited to Spartak after the championship between the teams of Russian regions, to which I went as part of the Siberian team. Almost all the strongest young football players of the country gathered for this tournament in Krymsk, and it was there that they noticed me. When they called me directly from Spartak, only my mother was against it - it was hard for her to let her son go to Moscow at the age of 15. Yes, and I myself doubted for a long time, it was scary to go: since childhood I was a home child, except for training and school, I didn’t go anywhere. But my father persuaded me, plus the representatives of Spartak convinced me that everything would be fine, and I still took the risk.

KUBAN AND KRASNODAR COMPLETE EACH OTHER

- The current coach of Krasnodar, Igor Shalimov, told me that the academy of the "citizens" in terms of conditions is better than Spartak's. Argue with him?

- I can’t answer this question, because I have never been to the Krasnodar academy. I just looked at photos and videos and I think that this is a huge project with a bunch of fields, and very high quality ones, where all the conditions are created for children - there would be more such schools in Russia. In the same Novosibirsk, children train on artificial fields of very poor quality, and as a child we generally trained in the winter on a knee-deep tennis court in the snow. Therefore, I will not compare the academies of Krasnodar and Spartak, we just need more of them.

- Do you feel the confrontation between Kuban and Krasnodar as a visitor?

No, and I don't know why. In Donetsk, where the vast majority of fans support Shakhtar, the atmosphere of the derby was felt even more clearly. And Kuban and Krasnodar seem to me to be brothers who complement each other. Today Krasnodar plays at the Kuban stadium, soon Kuban will play at the Krasnodar stadium - this is the fraternal attitude.

- Let's go back to your Spartak past. Do you know the history of the club by heart?

- To be honest, no. I studied at the Spartak school and I think that we should have had a lesson in club history, because you can write a separate book about Spartak. But we didn’t have such a lesson in the sports class, which I consider a big omission. Here in Krasnodar, I learn the history of Kuban from match programs and communication with veterans who admonished us before the start of the season. And in the near future I want to go to the museum of the club, it's interesting.

- There are few Kuban players in Kuban, few Spartak players in Spartak. Are these the realities of our football or the peculiarities of club training systems?

- The best guys from all over Russia have always been brought to the Spartak school, and I see an element of business in the fact that they then go to other clubs: the club is trying to make money on the pupils. Some, like the same Makeev and Parshivlyuk, remain in Spartak, but there are still, for example, Volodya Obukhov, Maxim Grigoriev, Vlad Ryzhkov, Pavel Yakovlev: their examples prove that Spartak play everywhere. Maybe Spartak originally had such a project - to supply footballers to clubs that do not have a good children's school. Take the same "Kuban": the club school does not even have quality fields for training, how can you raise players in such conditions?

- Can we say that you did not go through the main football school at Spartak, but still at Lokomotiv?

– Yes, because after joining the railroad in 2008, I spent five years at Loko-2 in the second division. There I played with Yuri Drozdov, Maxim Buznikin, Ruslan Nigmatullin and trained under the guidance of Evgeny Kharlachev and the then novice specialist Oleg Pashinin, and such acquaintances gave me a lot as a football player. Since at that time I was playing as an extreme midfielder, I watched Buznikin's game more closely and learned something from him.

- The current defender of "Tom" Vitaly Dyakov from Krasnodar at one time left Lokomotiv due to a conflict with Olga Smorodskaya. Is she hard to get along with?

- Smorodskaya did not get into the affairs of Loko-2, since we had our own sponsor and general director. But in the end, she made the decision to disband the team, and I think it is fundamentally wrong - now many clubs, including Kuban, are creating such teams.

- Last season, Lokomotiv lost a ticket to the Europa League. What, in your opinion, do the railroad workers lack in order to achieve results?

- In my opinion, self-confidence. For some reason, it seems to me from the outside that the Loko players believe that they are worse than the players of other top teams, although the team is stronger than Spartak in terms of composition. If the psychological problems are overcome in the new season, we will see another Lokomotiv.

- You are now 26. What would be the guidelines for individual progress?

- I would like to see the field better. The players in the central zone are especially good at this, and I would also like to see the situation not only in 2 meters from me, but also in 20. I see my big minus in this and I try to add in this component. And I'm lucky that in training Petrescu pays attention to this aspect: we have a lot of "squares" with a minimum number of decision-making options, so that you can see where you pass. And I'm glad that I have the opportunity to add.

You said you were a home child. Is family a priority right now?

- Yes, I mostly spend my leisure time with my wife. I am such a person by nature that I would prefer watching a series with my wife or a walk around the city to a noisy company - for me it's a thrill. Hobby? Probably playing in the Playstation, I love video games. We also watch all the cartoons that are released for rent - I like children's hobbies.

- Do you watch a lot of football on TV, or is it enough for you to play it?

- I only watch important matches, such as the Clasico and the Manchester derby, and of course the Champions League. I also watched almost all the matches of the French Euro and I can say that I liked only two meetings - this is the game of Portugal with Hungary and the duel between the Icelanders and the British. But meanwhile, I noticed for myself that the level of football in all countries is becoming approximately the same level. And the exit from the group of Slovakia, Wales, Northern Ireland and the same Iceland confirms this.

Zotov Georgy Alexandrovich is a famous science fiction writer, whose personality was unknown for a long time. There was a lot of speculation as to who might be hiding under the writer's brand "Zotov" until it became clear that this was a real person.

Biography

Georgy Zotov, whose books are known throughout the country, was born on March 1, 1971. After graduating from the Faculty of History of the University, he received the specialty "Bible Studies". But he did not work in his profession, justifying this with financial considerations. At the same time, he begins to write, but he is not interested in history. Georgy Zotov writes about the future, about what awaits future generations.

Professional career

The young and talented writer Zotov, after receiving his higher education, became a professional journalist. Currently, Georgy Zotov works at Arguments and Facts as the director of the department for foreign investigations and interviews. It is known that the young writer speaks several languages: Serbian, English and Arabic. In her free time, she enjoys reading classical literature and scriptures.

Writing activity

Zotov Georgy Alexandrovich, all of whose books are interesting to readers, wrote his debut book in 2004, although the plot was conceived by the young writer much earlier. The idea was already there, but the future author of wonderful novels could not put it on paper. Once he shared the planned plot of the future book with his acquaintance, who turned out to be the director of the publishing house. It was he who convinced the prose writer Zotov to take up work on the novel.

Already the first novel brought Georgy Zotov success and fame, so he decided to continue his writing career. And so his Hell and Heaven series was created.

In 2007, the book was published as a separate collection and immediately gained popularity among the reader. But Zotov's books were not only quickly sorted out from the shelves. There were a lot of rumors and speculation around the author. One of them said that Georgy Zotov was the pseudonym of several writers who came together to work.

In 2008, a new book series by a young writer, The End of the World, was released. And after that, novels were released outside the series. All his works are fantastic, but they always contain both religion and history. Therefore, the characters in these works can be found from real to biblical. If we more accurately define the genres of George Zotov's novels, then they can be attributed to science fiction, alternative history, mysticism, fantasy, and horror.

Book series "Alice and Kaledin"

In his fantastic series "Alice and Kaledin" Georgy Zotov placed three works: "Seal of the Moon", "Skull of Saturday" and "Skeleton of God". The first novel was written by a young science fiction writer in 2008. He shows the Russian reality in the twenty-first century, but it is completely different, not the one the reader is used to. There has never been a revolution in Russia, so it took a different path of development.

Now the Bolsheviks are the mafia, and marijuana is the most common thing. Counts who have already bought Mercedes and like to visit striptease taverns are still flourishing. But one day in this Moscow appears the horror and fear of all the inhabitants - Jack the Ripper. Star people become his victims: presenter Kolchak, singer Cezanna Whiskey and others. The terrible reality of the Middle Ages intersected with our time.

The second book in this series is Saturday's Skull, which was written in 2010. The plot is built around a robber who opens the coffins of famous people around the world. But no one knows why he does it.

The third book is "The Skeleton of God", which was published only in 2016. In a small town, in one unusual building, which is very similar to a flower, a huge number of corpses are found. All of them are united by one cause of death: they choked on sea water. But there is no sea nearby. This mystery remains to be unraveled.

Series "Cyril and Milena"

Georgy Zotov, a writer whose works are interesting to readers, also released the book series Cyril and Milena, which included two science fiction novels: The Republic of Night and The Republic of Night. Vampire Petersburg.

The first novel, published in print in 2009 in a huge edition, will take the reader to Moscow, where the Kremlin will appear in Black. Fresh blood is in great demand in the store, and vampires are in power. But people did not stop their hunt for them. And Kirill the Bloodsucker should one day become such a victim of people.

The second fantasy book is a continuation of the first novel. But only an interesting and exciting plot of this work about vampires will take the reader to modern Petersburg, which existed without a revolution. This time the main character is a woman working as a special agent. She will be forced to investigate the strange and unusual murders that are committed against vampire oligarchs. And in this case, the ancient goddess will also be involved, who once gave birth to all of them, and now wants to help people get rid of them.