Yan Larri
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Yan Leopoldivich Larri (Russian: Ян Леопольдович Ларри) (1900–1977) was a Soviet children's writer. He is best known for children's science fiction novel The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya.[1][2]
in 1941 he was arrested and imprisoned for an extraordinary act. Larri starter writing a science fiction novel A guest from the Sky and sending its chapters directly to Joseph Stalin. In the novel an alien visits the Soviet Union and his naive questions constitute the criticism of the Soviet life.[1][2]