1. Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher.
13 Facts About Ilya Kormiltsev
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Ilya Kormiltsev was born in Sverdlovsk, he had a younger sibling Eugene Kormiltsev.
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Ilya Kormiltsev graduated from an English-focused public school and entered the SPSU after one year he transferred to the Ural State University.
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In 1983, Ilya Kormiltsev met Vyacheslav Butusov and Dmitry Umetsky from Nautilus Pompilius rock band.
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In 1995, Ilya Kormiltsev was baptized, he chose Natalya Trauberg to become his god-mother.
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Ilya Kormiltsev started looking for new cultural forms and discovered hip-hop.
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Ilya Kormiltsev was fluent in English and French and translated books from these languages into his native Russian.
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In 1997, when Nautilus Pompilius broke up, Ilya Kormiltsev started working for the Inostrannaya Literatura.
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Ilya Kormiltsev translated into Russian such writers as JR R Tolkien, J G Ballard, Roald Dahl, Irvine Welsh, Gilbert Adair, Frederic Beigbeder, William S Burroughs, Richard Brautigan, Chuck Palahniuk, and many others.
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Nevertheless, Ilya Kormiltsev kept publishing authors from a wide ideological spectrum, from Subcomandante Marcos to William Luther Pierce.
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Meanwhile, Ilya Kormiltsev never professed permissiveness, he agreed that such literature required age limits.
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The advanced stage of cancer required expensive therapy, Ilya Kormiltsev's friends managed to contact Roman Abramovich, an old fan of Nautilus Pompilius, who gave 15000 pounds and helped to transfer him into Royal Marsden Hospital.
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Geydar Dzhemal, chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia, announced that Ilya Kormiltsev embraced Islam before his death.