Alexey Dmitrievich Galakhov was a Russian author and literary historian, best known for his Russian Reader for Children (1842), and The History of Russian Literature, Old and New (1863–1875). Galakhov, the Professor at the Saint Petersburg History and Philology Institute, contributed regularly to numerous high profile magazines, most notably, Andrey Krayevsky's Otechestvennye Zapiski where from 1839 till 1856 he published more than 900 articles and reviews, occasionally under the pseudonym Sto Odin. He was the author of several novelettes and books of memoirs.
Alexey Gogua is an Abkhaz writer. He studied at the Sukhumi Pedagogical University and Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. He was the first chairman of the organization Aidgylara. Gogua took actively part in the political life of the republic and was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. His works are often considered as constituting the best prose in Abkhaz language. His works have been translated into many languages of the former USSR and additionally into English, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Polish and Bulgarian.
Alexey Yuryevich Karpov is a Russian historian, obshestvoved and culturologist. The editor of the publishing house Molodaya Gvardiya. He is a specialist in the history of ancient Ukraine.