> I wonder who Rabiza was; none of the many fan sites for Soviet books say that. I've found a short postmortem from 2002 in a magazine "Science and Life"[1]. S

> I wonder who Rabiza was; none of the many fan sites for Soviet books say that. I've found a short postmortem from 2002 in a magazine "Science and Life"[1]. Seems he was engineer, painter and popular science writer/journalist. [1] https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/4982/ https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/4982/