Bunich Igor Lvovich

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, after 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 retiring 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.