Alexandra Marinina (born July 16, 1957, real name Alekseyeva Marina Anatolyevna) is a Russian best-seller detective stories writer. July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Detective Story is a 1951 film which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detectives squad. ...

Marinina was born in Lvov, Ukraine to a family of lawyers. She lived in Leningrad until 1971 and has lived in Moscow since then. She received a degree in law from the Moscow State University in 1979. Lviv ( Львів in Ukrainian; Львов, Lvov in Russian; Lwów in Polish; Leopolis in Latin; Lemberg in German—see also cities alternative names) is a city in western Ukraine with 830,000 inhabitants (an additional 200,000 commute daily from suburbs). ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: (help· info)) is the capital of Russia and the countrys principal political, economic, financial, educational and transportation center, located on the river Moskva. ... Moscow State University campus M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский Государственный Университет имени Ðœ.Ð’.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

From 1979 to 1998 she worked in research and education units of the MVD. She studied the personality of criminals with anomalies of mentality and criminals who have committed repeated violent crimes, earning a Ph.D. (Kandidat of Law degree) in 1986. She resigned from the militsiya system (a semi-formal term for the set of MVD organizations) in February, 1998 to become a full-time writer. Before her resignation, she had the rank of the lieutenant colonel of militsiya. This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Modern emblem of Russian MVD The Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (MVD) (Министерство внутренних дел) was the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the imperial Russia, late USSR, and still bears the same name in the Russian Federation. ... Kandidat (Russian: кандидат) or Candidate of Science (кандидат наук) is a holder of first post-graduate scientific degree in former USSR since 1934 and in some post-Soviet states, awarded on dissertation (the Doctor of Science is the next higher degree). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A member of a Russian special purpose police team (OMSN), equipped with a 9A91 submachine gun. ... In the U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, a lieutenant colonel is a commissioned officer superior to a major and inferior to a colonel. ...

Marinina started writing in 1991, when, together with her colleague Alexander Gorky, she wrote a detective story that was published in magazine Militsiya. In December 1992, she finished her first novel Confluence of Circumstances which was also published in Militsiya magazine, in 1993.

She has written over 30 novels, published in over 17 million copies and translated into over 20 languages. Most of her novels have a common central character Anastasia (Nastya) Kamenskaya. A television series Kamenskaya based on eight of Marinina's novels was shown on national Russian TV, and also in Latvia, Ukraine, Germany and France. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ...

Marinina has received several awards. In 1995 Marinina received the prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the best book about work of the Russian militsiya, for books Death for the Sake of Death and Away Game. She was recognized as "The Writer of Year" on 1998 Moscow International Book Fair, based on the sales of the books in 1997, and received the award of Ogonyok magazine in the category "Success of the Year" in 1998. Ogonyok is one of the oldest Russian weekly illustrated magazines, issued since December 21 (December 9 (O.S.) 1899. ...

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