Ballad of the Stars

Genrikh Saulovich Altshuller (1926-1998), was a Soviet engineer, inventor, scientist, journalist and writer. He is most notable for the creation of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, better known by its Russia acronym TRIZ. He founded the Azerbaijan Public Institute for Inventive Creation, and was the first President of the TRIZ Association. He also wrote science fiction under the pen-name Genrikh Altov.

Valentina Nikolayevna Zhuravleva (1933-2004) was a Soviet science fiction writer.

Valentina Zhuravleva was the wife of Genrich Altshuller, the inventor of TRIZ and a sci-fi writer himself. They have written many stories together, but because of anti-Semitic restrictions, they were published under the single name of Valentina Zhuravleva.