Alexander Menshov was born in 1977 in Kherson. He studied at KhSTU from 1994 to 1999 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics. For some time he worked as a technological engineer at the plant “Kherson combines”. In 2017 he took part in the competition “Literary Hope of the Dnieper – 2017” with excerpts from the story “Verification of Eternity”, written in the genre of alternative history, and became one of the finalists in the nomination “PRO3A”. In May 2019, Menshov made his debut at the annual Book Arsenal with the novel “Third Third”, the events of which take place in the “conditional” UPR model of 1929.