Efrem Pavlovich Levitan - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences (the only one in Russia on the problems of school astronomical education), Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. K.E. Tsiolkovsky, Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, Honored Worker of Academic Book Publishing of Russia, member of the Writers' Union of Russia, member of the Union of Journalists of the Russian Federation and Moscow, member of the specialized dissertation Scientific Council at Moscow State Pedagogical University, member of the Academic Council of the Moscow Planetarium, created in May 2008, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the RAS Presidium journal "Earth and the Universe" ; author of the main textbook "Astronomy-11" , the monographs "Didactics of Astronomy" (2004) and "The Universe of a Schoolboy of the XXI Century" (2007), curricula, methodological guides, optional courses, as well as the author of a number of popular science and science fiction books on astronomy for junior and senior schoolchildren and even preschoolers.