Viktor Dotsenko

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Viktor Dotsenko is a Russian author. The author of a series of action/adventure novels featuring Savely Govorkov, Dotsenko has often appeared on best-seller lists and was one of the best-selling authors in Russia in the 1990s.{{cite book|last1=Marsh|first1=Rosalind|author2=Rosalind J. Marsh|title=Literature, history and identity in post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-RJowhEAVYC&pg=PA83|accessdate=30 May 2011|year=2007|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-03911-069-8|page=83}}{{cite book|last=Barker|first=Adele Marie|title=Consuming Russia: popular culture, sex, and society since Gorbachev|url=https://archive.org/details/consumingrussia00adel|url-access=registration|accessdate=30 May 2011|year=1999|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-2313-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/consumingrussia00adel/page/167 167]–168}} According to 2007's Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, Dotsenko's thrillers of the 1990s bore patriotic and anti-Western themes.Barker (2007), p. 493. 2007's Literary Russia: A Guide credits him, alongside Alexandra Marinina, with pioneering the thriller genre in Russia.{{cite book|last1=Bartlett|first1=Rosamund|author2=Anna Benn|title=Literary Russia: a guide|date=13 December 2007|publisher=Overlook Duckworth|isbn=978-0-7156-3622-0|page=xii}}