Vladimir Makanin (1937-) is one of the most influential and prestigious writers in contemporary Russian literature. March 1937 was born in Orsk, Ural orenburg. He lives in a typical intellectual family. My father is a construction engineer and my mother is a Russian and literature teacher in a middle school. Influenced by his father's line, Bakanin became interested in mathematics and literature from an early age. 1954, admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University.