Scientific and Technical Expert

Another powerful scientific mind supporting The Book stories. Researcher at the University of Westminster, London, and anaward-winning science writer.

Chief Researcher

Vadim, our schematic and cross-section expert, simplifies complex concepts with ease. As part of our team of 13 researchers, he forms the scientific foundation of The Book. His unique approach combines the expertise of a competent adult with the curiosity of a child.

Advisor

Boris is a steam healer, educator, VC, entrepreneur, and father of 4 children. His passion lies in bridging tradition and contemporary through social art.

Human and Social Expert

Our team member is a journalist, screenwriter, multimedia special project author, and an expert on social aspects and self-development topics.

Scientific expert

Scientific expert, leading researcher at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry.

Medical and Chemical expert

Medical and chemical expert, science journalist, lecturer, popularizer of science, board member of the Russian Chemical Society of Mendeleev.

Secret adviser

Bogdan is an artist and a thinker of the 20th–21st centuries. He runs an art project, produces music and helps businesses to make decisions. And also he loves to invent games, puzzles and quests.

Main Illustrator

Lev is a master illustrator and the creative leader of our talented team at The Book. With a diverse background in architecture, advertising, and art, he brings a wealth of creativity and experience. Lev also shares his expertise by teaching illustration and watercolor painting at Kunstfabrik Art School in Vienna.

Illustrator

Oksana is a passionate artist focused on art and storytelling. Her work encompasses illustrations for product design, city view postcards, portraits, and intricate family tree compositions. Her creativity is evident in every project she undertakes.

Illustrator

Tatyana is a versatile artist and illustrator known for her work with oil paints, ink, and watercolor. She's created illustrations for Tarot cards, books, album covers, and more. Her art explores themes of philosophy, psychology, mysticism, and beauty. She is also a composer and pianist.

Illustrator

Irina, originally aspiring to be a botanist, discovered her talent for digital drawing. Her style combines old master techniques, heraldic design, and intricate ornamentation. She values the beauty in every detail and works with paper, ink, and watercolor to create her art.

Illustrator

Marina is a successful creative professional known for her work in book illustration, textile design, and game design. She teaches vector graphics at Fungi Studio and is a proud mother.

Illustrator

Gleb is an architect, a graphic artist, a book illustrator, a concept artist and a designer. He’s also a member of the National Union of Architects.

Illustrator

Since childhood, Olga has been surrounded by creativity, charming pictures of grandparents in various museums of her hometown of Kiev, sculptures of her great-grandfather, the smell of oil and turpentine. She graduated from two art schools and has a complete art education.

Illustrator

Marina is a graphic artist, scientist and art teacher. She works with illustrations for private collector’s editions, participates in exhibitions, competitions, congresses of printing graphics in Ukraine and Europe and possesses many international awards in the professional field.

Illustrator

Yaroslava is an illustrator with a unique style and background in energetic design. She has illustrated 2 books and actively collaborates with the Alien Ugo community, creating posters for events, album covers, and collaborating with musicians. Her designs are also featured in the decorations of the Mangup Tales Festival.

Illustrator

Sergey is a foundry engineer and independent artist. Moreover, he is a packaging designer, a shoe designer, a creator of socially oriented cartoons for children, a game designer, a jewelry artist, an architect and actor, a historical reenactor, an illustrator of children's books and an animator.

Layout Designer

Victor is an art director of our board games publishing company Cosmodrome Games who designs all the spreadsheets of our book. He says he’s always trying to find balance between his love of triathlons and sleep.

Editor-in-Chief (Russian texts)

Maria is an accomplished journalist and executive editor at Vokrug Sveta magazine. Passionate about clear expression, she leads a team of 12 expert copywriters and has made a significant impact in the media industry with her expertise in popular science, geography, and cross-cultural topics.

Editor

The voice behind The Book narration. Journalist, writer, science communicator, TV host.

Science Editor

Scientific expert and editor of the Polytechnic Museum.

Editor (English texts)

Taylor is a translator, journalist and xenolinguist. She specializes in speculative sci-fi, LitRPG and constructed languages and wants to be the official interpreter to the aliens when we makefirst contact.

Editor (English texts)

Eddie has worked in the publishing industry for 25 years, wearing hats in everything from typesetting to quality control to developmental editing. He was desperate to join The Book crew at first contact. Now he wants to live in an alternate universe.

Copywriter

Sasha likes to meticulously look for small details and to find out unexpected insights for texts, constantly travels and doesn’t really like her profession as an international economist.

Сopywriter, editor and researcher

By using her creativity, ability to write simply about the most difficult things and skills to combine undeniable logic and humor she helps people to write books of all kinds.

Copywriter

Elena is a traveling copywriter, story-teller, story-finder and story-maker.