Valentina Zhuravleva
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Valentina Nikolayevna Zhuravleva (Валентина Журавлева, July 17, 1933, Baku
Baku
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, USSR — March 12, 2004, Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk
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, Russia
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) was a Soviet science fiction
Science fiction
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 writer.

Valentina Zhuravleva was the wife of Genrich Altshuller
Genrich Altshuller
Genrikh Saulovich Altshuller , was a Soviet engineer, inventor, scientist, journalist and writer. He is most notable for the creation of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, better known by its Russia acronym TRIZ...

, the inventor of TRIZ
TRIZ
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 and a sci-fi writer himself. They have written many stories together, but because of anti-Semitic restrictions, they were published under the single name of Valentina Zhuravleva.

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