Tim Skorenko

Timofey (Tim) Yuryevich Skorenko (born 28 February 1983) is a Russian and Belarusian author of the Ukrainian origin, writing mostly in Russian, also poet, singer-songwriter, and journalist. As a writer, he works at the intersection of the genres of speculative fiction and literary realism, including several realistic and historical works. Tim Skorenko is engaged in the popularization of scienceBrief biography on the website of the popular science publishing house "Alpina Non Fiction" and lectures on technical topics.
==Biography==
Tim Skorenko graduated from the Belarusian National Technical UniversityOfficial bio with a degree in Internal Combustion Engines. Until 2009, he worked at the Minsk Automobile Plant as a test engineer for car acoustics, and in 2009 he moved to Moscow, becoming an editor in the What's New in Science and Technology magazine (Russian edition of Popular Science). At the end of the same year, he moved to Russian edition of Popular Mechanics. Since 2018, he has been working at Kaspersky LabSecurity awareness website by Tim Skorenko as security awareness specialist. In 2022, he moved from Russia to Armenia, and now lives in Yerevan.Article about Armenian drinking fountains by Tim Skorenko
==Prose==
Tim Skorenko began writing prose in 2004. In 2007, he was shortlisted for the independent literary award Debut.Tim Skorenko at the Debut Award website The first publication was the short story “Quiet Games” in the almanac Noon. XXI century (No. 9’2008). The first major published work was the novel Ode to Absolute Cruelty (2010). Tim Skorenko's second novel, The Garden of Hieronymus Bosch (2011), was longlisted for the Big Book (award)|Big BookShortlist for the 2011 Big Book Award and National BestsellerShortlist for the 2011 National Bestseller Award awards, and won a number of genre awards, including the Bronze SnailList of Bronze Snail Award Winners of Boris Strugatsky. At the moment, 45 stories (in periodicals and collections) and 7 novels have been published.
==Journalism and popularization of science==
From 2009 to 2018, Tim Skorenko worked in the field of science journalism in the What's New in Science and Technology, then in Popular Mechanics magazines. He collaborated as a columnist with some other magazines, including Mir Fantastiki and Vokrug sveta. He published more than 400 articles in Popular Mechanics, Mir Fantastiki, What's New in Science and Technology, Vokrug sveta, and Russian editions of GQ, Maxim, Tatler, Cosmopolitan, etc. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as the editor-in-chief of the Popular Mechanics Internet portal.Profile on the Arche website with a mention of the work as the editor-in-chief.
Since 2014, Tim Skorenko has been promoting science, giving lectures on technical topics in various citiesArchive of lectures on the official website Archive of lectures on the Theory&Practice website Video of the lecture in Voronezh. Also, he published a number of scientifically popular books. The book Invented in Russia: A History of Russian Inventive Thought from Peter I to Nicholas II was shortlisted for the 2017 Enlightener Prize,Shortlist for the Enlightener Award 2017 while the book Invented in the USSR. The History of Inventive Thought from 1917 to 1991 was on the long list of the 2019 Enlightener Prize.Longlist for the Enlightener Award 2019
Also, Tim Skorenko is the author of a number of non-fiction books for children. The book Think and invent was published both in Russia in Russian and in Ukraine in Ukrainian.Ukrainian edition of Think and invent
==Singer-songwriter and poet==
Since 1998, Tim Skorenko has been writing songs and performing them with the guitar; he is a laureate and diploma winner of numerous art song festivals and poetry competitions in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. For a long time, he was a member of the art song club of the Belarusian State University.Information about art song club of the Belarusian State University
In 2008, at the Siberian Highway studio in Kazan, he recorded his first studio album, Iron Heart. In 2020 and 2021, he recorded five more studio albums.Tim Skorenko at Spotify In 2011, a collection of poems Dogs of the Lord was published in Germany (Sindelfingen).Information about a collection of poems Dogs of the Lord Since 2003, Tim Skorenko has been performing as a singer-songwriter and as a poetry reader in various cities (Minsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Poltava, Sumy, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Vitebsk, etc.) 
He also writes songs in Ukrainian.An example of a song in Ukrainian.
==Security awareness==
Currently, Tim Skorenko is professionally engaged in the security awareness field as an expert.Security awareness website by Tim Skorenko Over the past few years, he has been developing training courses on information security for Kaspersky Lab including Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform (ASAP), Kaspersky Adaptive Online Training (KAOT) platform and various local cybersecurity courses (General Data Protection Regulation, working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, phishing email simulator content, etc.)
==Other projects==
Tim Skorenko is the author of the Complete map of memorial plaques in Yerevan project,Complete map of memorial plaques in Yerevan which tells in detail about all the memorial plaques in the capital of Armenia.
==Awards and prizes==
Laureate of numerous literary awardsAll literary awards and nominations for Tim Skorenko including Eurocon (Stockholm, 2011), Bronze Snail (St. Petersburg, 2011), Bronze Caduceus (Kharkiv, 2011), Days of Science Fiction (Kyiv, 2011) and others. Winner of the Alexander Belyaev Literary Prize in 2015 for a series of essays Entertaining scientific experiments and master classes, published in the Popular Mechanics magazine. Winner of numerous poetry awards Ilya Prize (2009), Literary Vienna (2010), O. Beshenkovskaya Prize (2010/11), and others.
Laureate of the XLI Grushinsky festival as a singer-songwriter (2014).Laureates of the 41st Grushinsky festival
Laureate of the XVIII National award in the field of media business Media Manager of Russia 2018 in the nomination Electronic Media / Online Media (For expanding the territory of the brand beyond the press, the successful development of the project and the formation of a new audience in the digital space).
==Bibliography==
===FictionBibliography on the official website (fiction)Bibliography on the Fantlab resource===
*The Ode to Absolute Cruelty / Ода абсолютной жестокости (2010). Novel
*The Garden of Hieronymus Bosch / Сад Иеронима Босха (2011). NovelThe Garden of Hieronymus Bosch on Goodreads
*The Laws of Applied Euthanasia / Законы прикладной эвтаназии (2011). NovelThe Laws of Applied Euthanasia on Goodreads
*Along the Blade of Words / Вдоль по лезвию слов (2012). Short story collectionLegends of Unknown America on Goodreads
*Legends of Unknown America / Легенды неизвестной Америки (2013). Novel. 2 editionsLegends of Unknown America on Goodreads
*The Bookbinder / Переплётчик (2014). Novel (under the pseudonym Eric Delahaye)
*Everest / Эверест (2018). NovelEverest novel on Amazon
===Non-fictionBibliography on the official website (non-fiction)Bibliography on the Fantlab resource===
*Evolution of Thought in Significant Dates of Science and Exhibits of the Polytechnic Museum (2017)
*Invented in Russia. History of Russian Inventive Thought from Peter I to Nicholas II (2017). 3 editionsInvented in Russia on Amazon
*Popular Mechanics. Entertaining Tests and Experiments (2018). 2 editionsEntertaining Tests and Experiments on Amazon
*Polytech Calendar 2068 (2018)
*Invented in the USSR. History of Inventive Thought from 1917 to 1991 (2019)
*PR Me If You Can. Instructions for a PR Specialist Written by a Journalist (2019)
*Think and Invent (2020). For children. 2 editions (Russian and Ukrainian)
*How the inedible becomes edible (2023). For children. Co-author: Tatiana AlekseevaAnnouncement of the book How the inedible becomes edible on the publisher's page
===Poems===
*Dogs of the Lord / Псы Господни (2011). Collection of poems.
===Audiobooks===
*PR Me If You Can. Instructions for a PR Specialist Written by a Journalist (read by Tim Skorenko) (2019)PR Me If You Can by Tim Skorenko (Audiobook) on Litres
==DiscographyDiscography on Spotify==
*Ironheart / Железное сердце (2008)
*After Gardel / После Гарделя (2021)
*Who will be selected / Кого отберут (2021)
*For a Time Traveler / Путешественнику во времени (2021)
*Alyarin / Алярин (2021)
*Diary / Дневник (2022)
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