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Alexander Alfredovich Bek 

(Russian: Алекса́ндр Альфре́дович Бек;

3 January 1903 [O.S. 21 December 1902] 

– 2 November 1972), sometimes transliterated from the Russian Cyrillic as Aleksandr Bek or Anglicized to Alexander Beck, was a Soviet novelist and writer.