Alexey Alekseevich Dorokhov (Russian: Алексей Алексеевич Дорохов) (1902 - 1981) - Russian writer, journalist, critic, author of popular science books for children. Author of a large number of essays, stories, reviews for children's newspapers and magazines. With the beginning of the war, he went to the front as a volunteer, was a soldier, then - a war correspondent. Dorokhov's works have repeatedly won first prizes at book competitions for children, and were reprinted.