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Alexander Melentyevich Volkov ( 1891 – 1977) was a Russian novelist and mathematician.

He wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The first of these books is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with names changed and chapters added or omitted. First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular and in the 1960s, Volkov began writing his own sequels to the story. From 1963 to 1970 four more books in the series were published, with the sixth and final story published posthumously in 1982. Other authors such as Yuri Kuznitchov, Peter Sukhinov and Leonid Vladimirsky (Volkov's original illustrator) have more recently written additional sequels in Russian, creating in effect an alternative series of Oz books.

Volkov's Magic Land series, as it was called, was translated into many languages and was popular with children all over the Eastern blocDuring the Cold War, the Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc comprised the following Central and Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Albania (until the early 1960s, see below), the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia. The E. Volkov's version of Oz seems to be better known than Baum's in some countries, for example in ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute, in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east (formerly East GermanyFor the historical eastern German provinces, see Eastern Germany East Germany officially the German Democratic Republic GDR , German Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR , was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet), and possibly in ArabicArabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu. See al-speaking countries such as SyriaThe Syrian Arab Republic is a country in Southwest Asia, bordering (from south to north) on Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. The border with Israel is subject to dispute, pending the resolution of outstanding conflicts over possession of the Gola. In Germany, one author has written his own set of sequels to Volkov's books. The first four books in the series have been translated into English — or retranslated, in the case of the first book — by Peter L. Blystone, and were published by Red Branch press in two volumes (two books a volume) in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac and 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic..