Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bushkov (Russian: Александр Александрович Бушков; 5 April 1956 – 29 September 2025) was a Russian author who wrote books in the genres of science fiction, crime fiction, popular history and non-fiction. In his belletristic, published in literary and popular journals, Bushkov had been critical of conventional academic approaches in fields such as history and evolutionary biology. As indicated on the personal webpage of the author, his total number of volumes published (all works and all editions) exceeds 17 million. Source: Wikipedia (en)