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(1937)

Born in 1937, in the family of a design engineer. Graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. Worked at the Central Research Institute named after. Krylov and the Naval Academy. He was engaged in translations and abstracting of foreign literature. As a hobby, he was interested in the history of the fleet. In the 1980s, he served as a witness in a number of cases conducted by the KGB, including for distributing anti-Soviet literature, which is why he was forced to work as a night watchman for several years. Igor Bunich became widely known after the release of the book “Gold of the Party”, the genre of which can be defined as a mixture of non-fiction and fantasy. In his popular historical works, the author describes the events of history, building a plot outline on bold assumptions. The best books by I. Bunich are devoted to the history of the fleet: “The Baltic Tragedy” (about the passage of a caravan of warships and civilian vessels from Tallinn to Kronstadt in 1941), the tetralogy “In the Fire of Wars and Revolutions” (about the history of three Pacific squadrons during the Russian-Japanese war), “Pacific Ocean. The Unknown War" (about the events of 1940-1945). Among his other books are “Operation Thunderstorm”, “Corsairs of the Kaiser”, “Pirates of the Fuhrer”, “Mayhem”, “Sword of the President”, “Black Sea Tsushima”.

Bunich, Igor Lvovich- Russian writer and publicist. He became famous for his works in the genre of political journalism and folk history. Also the author of popular historical books on naval topics.

Biography

Born on September 28, 1937 in the family of a design engineer. From childhood he lived in Leningrad. In 1956-1959 he studied at the Yeisk School of Naval Aviation, upon graduation he served as a navigator in the Northern Fleet of the USSR Navy. Returning to Leningrad, he entered the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. Since 1964 he worked at the Central Research Institute named after. Krylov, then - from 1974 - at the Naval Academy, researching archival materials and compiling analytical reviews for the leadership of the academy. He was engaged in translations and abstracting of foreign literature. As a hobby, he was interested in the history of the fleet. His last rank before his retirement in 1984 was Lieutenant Colonel, Naval Aviation.

Since the mid-1970s, he began distributing among his friends his translations from foreign specialized periodicals (either without indicating his authorship as a translator, or under various pseudonyms), as well as his own works on military history, which he presented as translations of foreign authors [source not indicated 1800 days]. In 1981, under the pseudonym “I. Colt" began to be published in the Leningrad samizdat magazine "Hours" [source not specified 1800 days].

In 1982, he received the first official warning from the Leningrad KGB department for the reproduction and illegal distribution of “slanderous” and “close to secret” materials; in 1984 - a second warning (in connection with the “Donskoy case”) - regarding the spread of “anti-Soviet literature”. Was expelled from work under the pretext of staff reduction; Since 1984 he served as a watchman and night watchman.

In the 1990s, he worked as an assistant to People’s Deputy Yuli Rybakov, was engaged in journalism, and published the books “Gold of the Party”, “Sword of the President”, “Operation Thunderstorm” and others, which sold in large quantities.

Creation

Igor Bunich's books can be divided into three groups. The first is his most famous works, written in the genre of folk history, politically engaged, quite freely interpreting Russian history, equipped with significant lyrical digressions, and at the same time easy and exciting to read. For example, these books from the “Operation Thunderstorm” series are dedicated to proving J.V. Stalin’s preparation for the occupation of Europe in 1941. The second group was represented by books reflecting on current political events of the 1990s, such as “The President’s Sword” (about the events of 1993) and “Chronicle of the Chechen massacre.” A significant, but less well-known group of the writer’s books are popular accounts of events in maritime history. It includes books such as “Pirates of the Fuhrer”, “Corsairs of the Kaiser”, “Alexander Suvorov” and many others.

Bibliography

"Alexander II". "Andrew the First-Called". "Baltic tragedy. Agony." "Baltic tragedy. Disaster." "Mayhem". "Borodino". "In the fire of a state cataclysm." "Captain Dawson's Opening Days". "Drawn by rock." "The Second Coming of Wrath." "The Second Pearl Harbor". "The sinking of the battleship Yamato." "Two Deaths of Emperor Alexander I". "The Long Road to Calvary." "Gold of the Party". "Emperor Alexander III". "Emperor Nicholas I". "Prince Suvorov". "KAISER'S CORSAIRS". "Labyrinths of Madness". “Lenin, Stalin, Hitler. In the middle of hell." "Battleships of the Fuhrer". "The President's Sword". "Navarin". "Operation Thunderstorm. Bloody games of dictators." "Operation Thunderstorm. Stalin's mistake." “Operation 'Thunderstorm', or Error in the third character. Historical chronicle." "Oslyabya." "From the Cocos Islands to Sevastopol." "Paul I". "Pirates of the Fuhrer". "Port Arthur Trap". "The Last Days of the Second Pacific Squadron." “Prelude to disaster. Battle of Leyte Gulf." "Application ". "Applications". "Destroyer of Empires". "Nicholas II syndrome". "Sisoi the Great". "Glory ". “Troubled days (From the memoirs of B.P. Dudorov).” "Tallinn transition". “Theory and practice of permanent destruction (From materials of S. A. Zonin).” "Tsesarevich". "Black Sea Tsushima".

There is an alternative list:

1. The war is heating up. Invasion. An occupation. (1996, 1997) 2. Escape with the loot. President's case. President's sword. (1996, 1997) 3. Scrap of the President. President's fangs. Historical sketches. (1996, 1997) 1. Tallinn transition. (1994, 2003) 2. Baltic tragedy. Agony. (1996, 2003) 3. Baltic tragedy. Catastrophe. (1996, 2003)

Mayhem. (1994, 2004)

A true story of lawlessness, or the Nicholas II Syndrome. (1994-95)

In the fire of wars and coups. Book 1. (1995)

In the fire of wars and coups. Book 2. (1995)

In the fire of a state cataclysm. (2000, 2004)

In the center of hell. (1995, 2003)

Drawn by rock. (1999)

The Second Coming is angry. (2000)

Second Pearl Harbor. (1999, 2005)

D. Artagnan from the NKVD. (1996)

Dynastic rock. (1995, 2002)

The long road to Golgotha. (2000, 2004)

Stalin's will. (2002, 2003)

Gold of the party: Historical chronicle. (1992, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005)

Case and sword. (1994)

Prince Suvorov. (1995, 2003)

Kaiser's corsairs. (1998, 2003)

Labyrinths of madness. (1993-95)

Fuhrer's battleships. (2004, 2006)

President's Sword: Big hardware teardown. (1993-94, 2001, 2004)

Martyr of Tsushima. (1999)

Operation "Thunderstorm", or Error in the third character. Book 1. (1994, 2005)

Operation "Thunderstorm", or Error in the third character. Book 2. (1994, 2005)

Fuhrer Pirates. (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002)

Satan's training ground. (1994) Collection

Port Arthur Trap: Historical Chronicle. (1999, 2003)

Pacific Ocean. Unknown war.

Tragedy in the Baltic. August 1941 (1997)

Chronicle of the Chechen massacre. (1995)

Black Sea Tsushima. 1914-1921. (1999, 2004)

Unfortunately, there is clearly a situation where different works were published as part of different books, and in the lists it is difficult to understand which are collections and which are independent works.

Bunich Igor Lvovich (September 28, 1937 - June 15, 2000) - Russian writer and publicist. He became famous for his works in the genre of political journalism and folk history. Also the author of popular historical books on naval topics.

From childhood he lived in Leningrad. In 1956-1959 he studied at the Yeisk School of Naval Aviation, upon graduation he served as a navigator in the Northern Fleet of the USSR Navy. Returning to Leningrad, he entered the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. Since 1964 he worked at the Central Research Institute named after. Krylov, then - from 1974 - at the Naval Academy, researching archival materials and compiling analytical reviews for the leadership of the academy. He was engaged in translations and abstracting of foreign literature. As a hobby, he was interested in the history of the fleet. His last rank before his retirement in 1984 was lieutenant colonel in the Naval Air Corps.

Since the mid-1970s, he began distributing among his friends his translations from foreign specialized periodicals (either without indicating his authorship as a translator, or under various pseudonyms), as well as his own works on military history, which he presented as translations of foreign authors. In 1981, under the pseudonym “I. Colt" began to be published in the Leningrad samizdat magazine "Clocks".

In 1982, he received the first official warning from the Leningrad KGB department for the reproduction and illegal distribution of “slanderous” and “close to secret” materials; in 1984 - a second warning (in connection with the “Donskoy case”) - regarding the spread of “anti-Soviet literature”. Was expelled from work under the pretext of staff reduction; Since 1984 he served as a watchman and night watchman.

In the 1990s, he worked as an assistant to People’s Deputy Yuli Rybakov, was engaged in journalism, and published the books “Gold of the Party”, “Sword of the President”, “Operation Thunderstorm” and others, which sold in large quantities.

Books (16)

Second Pearl Harbor

One of the “blank spots” in the history of the Second World War for the Russian reader is the naval battle off Savo Island.

The aggressive Japanese Admiral Mikawa, who had not yet fully recovered from the defeat of the Japanese at Midway Island, hastily assembled a force of ships and inflicted a brutal defeat on the Americans, which the American press rightly called “the second Pearl Harbor.” To remind readers of the “first” Pearl Harbor, Walter Lord's fascinating material is offered in an excellent authorized translation by I. Bunich.

Storm. Bloody games of dictators

The book is dedicated to one of the terrible “episodes” of the Five Hundred Years War - the preparation by the Stalinist regime of a global military operation with the aim of capturing Europe and its subsequent Sovietization.

The author paid a lot of attention to the work of intelligence agencies to disinformation the Hitlerite and Stalinist leadership in the last months before the clash between the two bloody dictators. The book dispels the myths of nomenklatura historians about the peace-loving policy of the Soviet Union and convincingly reveals the reasons for the defeats of the Red Army at the initial stage of the most terrible war for our country.

D'Artagnan from the NKVD: Historical anecdotes

The palace secrets of the times of Cardinal Richelieu, to which the famous D’Artagnan, the hero of the novels of Alexandre Dumas, is initiated, pale in comparison with the mysteries and intrigues of the communist elite of the Moscow Kremlin.

The hero of the new book by Igor Bunich served for a long time in the NKVD and the KGB and carries out many “delicate” assignments, the results of which influence the development of events in the Soviet state in the most unexpected way.

Party Gold

The communists came to our country in 1917 as invaders.

For more than seventy years they behaved like occupiers, and realizing that their time was up, they fled like fairground thieves, robbing the people completely and destroying the state. Even geographically, Russia found itself thrown back to the times of the memorable Tsar John IV Vasilyevich. That is, in the 16th century. And it’s already XXI.

President's case

“The President’s Case” is an action-packed story by a former Air Force officer, who, like M.S. Gorbachev, on the first day of the putsch (August 19, 1991) had his phone turned off and the “President’s case” under his protection, which contained special equipment for sending a signal that meant nuclear war for humanity.

Kaiser's Corsairs

It would seem that the pragmatic and cold twentieth century left no room for romantic and daring sea adventures, during which corsairs would gut “merchants”, burn coastal cities, dashingly evade pursuit and bury countless treasures on uninhabited islands.

But this is far from true! Corsairs operated throughout the twentieth century.

There is no doubt that the dangerous adventures of such captains as Muller, Nerger, Keller and Luckner, described by Igor Bunich on the basis of documents and memoirs, will take their rightful place in the list of books about pirates created by famous authors of the past such as Stevenson, Mariette, Conan Doyle and Sabatini.

Labyrinths of Madness

The work of Igor Bunich describes the events that led to the bloodiest war in human history. Two totalitarian regimes, intoxicated by the idea of ​​world domination, moved inexorably towards a brutal conflict.
Carefully concealing their intentions, the general staffs of the Soviet Union and Germany prepared plans for lightning-fast offensive operations to crush each other.

Thanks to global disinformation provided by the intelligence services of different countries, including his own, Stalin was in a kind of surreal world, from which he was brought out by the terrible blow of a surprise attack by Hitler’s armies.

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• The book is dedicated to one of the terrible “episodes” of the Five Hundred Years War - the preparation by the Stalinist regime of a global military operation with the aim of capturing Europe and its subsequent Sovietization. The author paid a lot of attention to the work of intelligence agencies to disinformation the Hitlerite and Stalinist leadership in the last months before the clash between the two bloody dictators. The book dispels the myths of nomenklatura historians about the peace-loving policy of the Soviet Union and convincingly reveals the reasons for the defeats of the Red Army at the initial stage of the most terrible war for our country. Written, like all the works of Igor Bunich, in a bright, exciting manner, free from the shackles of pseudoscientific mutota, the book can be recommended to young readers, primarily schoolchildren and students, as excellent extracurricular reading on the history of our country in the 20th century.
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• Igor Bunin’s book “Gold of the Party” offered to readers over the past decade has been the No. 1 bestseller in the vast expanses of Russia. What is the reason for such success? After all, mountains of literature have been written and rewritten about the cunning Ilyich, nimble commissars and cold-headed security officers. The answer is simple - Igor Bunich first presented the October Revolution, the seizure of power by Lenin and his associates, as well as the subsequent seventy-year history of the USSR from the point of view of money - gold - a despised metal - an evergreen convertible currency.
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• It would seem that the pragmatic and cold 20th century left no room for romantic and daring sea adventures, during which corsairs would gut “merchants”, burn coastal cities, dashingly evade pursuit and bury countless treasures on uninhabited islands. But this is far from the case ! Corsairs operated throughout the twentieth century. There is no doubt that the dangerous adventures of such captains as Müller, Nerger, Keller and Luckner, described by Igor Bunich on the basis of documents and memoirs, will take their rightful place in the list of books about pirates created by famous authors of the past such as Stevenson, Mariette, Conan Doyle and Sabatini. Germany, as it were, compensated for the lost time when the British, Spaniards, Portuguese and French were engaged in sea robbery. In the first half of the 20th century, corsairs were almost exclusively Germans. This is how it happened historically. And although the naval flags of their country flew on the masts of the German cruisers, and the crews wore naval uniforms, they, just like their distant predecessors, waged a war against all humanity at their own peril and risk. For they had neither allies nor bases in the ocean, and every five to six days they had to replenish their supplies of coal, fuel oil and fresh water. There was no place to repair it - any damage could be the last. Only remote coves of God-forsaken islands overgrown with coconut palms could serve as a place for a short rest.

The first years of Russia's “democratic” development were marked by unprecedented upheavals. Why was the great country unable to quickly and effectively go through the path of transformation, as most countries of Eastern Europe managed to do? Who was interested in the chaos that engulfed the territory of the former Union? The brutal struggle of the nomenklatura clans, desperate attempts by any means to return the country to the communist fold, the opposition of regional elites to the center, ethnic conflicts... Written in the author’s characteristic style, rich in historical material, the book is a direct continuation of the famous “Gold of the Party” and is read with unflagging interest from the first to the last page.

The book is dedicated to one of the terrible “episodes” of the Five Hundred Years War - the preparation by the Stalinist regime of a global military operation with the aim of capturing Europe and its subsequent Sovietization. The author paid a lot of attention to the work of intelligence agencies to disinformation the Hitlerite and Stalinist leadership in the last months before the clash between the two bloody dictators. The book dispels the myths of nomenklatura historians about the peace-loving policy of the Soviet Union and convincingly reveals the reasons for the defeats of the Red Army at the initial stage of the most terrible war for our country. Written, like all the works of Igor Bunich, in a bright, exciting manner, the book can be recommended reading on the history of the 20th century.

It would seem that the pragmatic and cold twentieth century left no room for romantic and daring sea adventures, during which corsairs would gut “merchants”, burn coastal cities, dashingly evade pursuit and bury countless treasures on uninhabited islands.

But this is far from true! Corsairs operated throughout the twentieth century.

There is no doubt that the dangerous adventures of such captains as Muller, Nerger, Keller and Luckner, described by Igor Bunich on the basis of documents and memoirs, will take their rightful place in the list of books about pirates created by famous authors of the past such as Stevenson, Mariette, Conan Doyle and Sabatini.

Germany, as it were, compensated for the lost time when the British, Spaniards, Portuguese and French were engaged in sea robbery. In the first half of the 20th century, corsairs were almost exclusively Germans. This is how it happened historically. And although the naval flags of their country flew on the masts of the German cruisers, and the crews wore naval uniforms, they, just like their distant predecessors, waged a war against all humanity at their own peril and risk. For they had neither allies nor bases in the ocean, and every five to six days they had to replenish their supplies of coal, fuel oil and fresh water. There was no place to repair it - any damage could be the last. Only remote coves of God-forsaken islands overgrown with coconut palms could serve as a place for a short rest.

The author of the bestsellers “The Party’s Gold”, “Satan’s Proving Ground”, “Lawlessness”, “Tallinn Crossing” offers readers his version of one of the secrets of the 20th century - the secret of the fateful fate of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II.

The search for the remains of the emperor, undertaken by the KGB on the orders of Mikhail Gorbachev, leads the protagonist to such terrible discoveries that the leadership of the security agencies does not even dare to report to the president.

The book by I. Bunich lifts the curtain on the secrets of the prophecies of Seraphim of Sarov, Grigory Rasputin, Lucia Ebobera about the fate of Russia, the Romanov dynasty and Nicholas II.

The book by Igor Bunich, known for the bestsellers “Gold of the Party”, “Sword of the President”, “Nicholas II Syndrome”, “Tallinn Transition”, etc., describes the events that led to the bloodiest war in the history of mankind.

Two totalitarian regimes, intoxicated by the idea of ​​world domination, moved inexorably towards a brutal conflict. Carefully concealing their intentions, the general staffs of the Soviet Union and Germany prepared plans for lightning-fast offensive operations to crush each other. Thanks to global disinformation provided by the intelligence services of different countries, including his own, Stalin was in a kind of surreal world, from which he was brought out by the terrible blow of a surprise attack by Hitler’s armies.

The book describes a fascinating picture of the struggle of the governments, general staffs and intelligence services of the USSR, Germany, England and the USA in the name of the future redivision of the world.