13 Facts About Dmitry Bykov

Dmitry Bykov is known as biographer of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava and Maxim Gorky.

Dmitry Bykov taught literature and the history of Soviet literature in Moscow's secondary schools.

Dmitry Bykov was a professor at the Department of World Literature and Culture of Moscow State Institute of International Relations, often considered the most elite university of the USSR.

Dmitry Bykov has periodically hosted a show on the radio station Echo of Moscow, which ran until 2008.

Dmitry Bykov later wrote influential biographies of Maxim Gorky and Bulat Okudzhava.

In 2008 a documentary called Virginity was released in which Dmitry Bykov was a co-writer.

In 2009, Dmitry Bykov was named assistant editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Profile.

Dmitry Bykov is the editor-in-chief of the monthly literature-focused magazine What to Read.

Yefremov reads poems, written by Dmitry Bykov, which are usually satirical comments on contemporary Russian society, politics and culture.

In mid-April 2019, while aboard a domestic flight en route to Ufa, Dmitry Bykov fainted and was hospitalized upon arrival.

In 2022 Dmitry Bykov, who has criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was declared by Russian government to be a "foreign agent".

Since being declared a "foreign agent", Dmitry Bykov has been fined for not declaring his status as such, and is subject to a criminal case.

Since 2022, Dmitry Bykov was a visiting critic in the Institute for European Studies in Cornell University.