About Ilya Kormiltsev
Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev (Russian: Илья́ Вале́рьевич Корми́льцев; 26 September 1959 – 4 February 2007) was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher. Kormiltsev is most famous for working during the 1980s and the 1990s as a songwriter in Nautilus Pompilius, one of the most popular rock bands in the Soviet Union and, later, Russia. He was also a prominent literary translator and publisher. Since 1997, he translated into Russian many important pieces of modern prose, such as Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, or Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. In 2003, he established Ultra.Kultura publishing house, which immediately gained a scandalous reputation and was closed by the authorities in 2007. Through its brief history, Ultra.Kultura published numerous counter-culture books in a wide range from ultra-right to radical left authors. == Biography == === Early years === Ilya Kormiltsev was born in Sverdlovsk, he had a younger sibling Eugene Kormiltsev. Ilya graduated from an English-focused public school and entered the SPSU, however, after one year he transferred to the Ural State University. In 1981, he graduated from the Chemistry department. Since 1981, he was a songwriter for Urfin Jus (Russian rock band), musicians Nastya Poleva and Egor Belkin, and several other rock groups.
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