Born July 21, 1934 in Moscow, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University, he worked in the press, in the apparatus of the CPSU Central Committee. Published since the late 1950's. Member of the USSR JV (1966). The first science fiction publication - the story "Adventures on the seabed" (1960).

Fame Veltistov, the lead author of Soviet children's science fiction, brought a series of works about the robot boy, copies of the schoolboy Syroezhkin - "The electronics - the boy from the suitcase. The Fantasy Story (1964), Rassy the elusive friend (1970, 1971), The Winner of the Impossible (1975), The New Adventures of Electronics (1984, refining 1988); on the first two stories a popular television movie was shot.

Among other Veltistov's works related to science fiction is the tale of the impasse in which the fabulous "fulfillment of desires", "Gum-Gam", 1970 (screened in 1985); and a collection of tales of tales - "One Million and One Day Vacation" (1979), "Classroom and extra-curricular adventures of extraordinary first-graders" (1985). To Veltistov's science fiction "for adults" are: a story about a near future - "A Sip of the Sun. Notes of the programmer Mart Snegov "(1967), which tells about the arrival in the solar system of an alien starfleet, controlled by a computer, as well as the novel" Nocturne of Emptiness "(1988), describing the conspiracy of the imperialists threatening humanity with a climate war; previously published together with the previous story in one volume - a collection of "Nocturne emptiness. The Shot of the Sun "(1982)