Vladimir Aleynikov. Arseny Tarkovsky and Arkady Steinberg. Early version of the text.

Vladimir Aleynikov. Arseny Tarkovsky and Arkady Steinberg. Early version of the text.
20 p. Size 21 x 29.5 cm.

Vladimir D. Aleinikov (born. 28 January 1946, Perm) — Russian poet, one of founders Smog. He began to write poetry and prose at school. He studied music, painting and graphics. In 1962-1964 he was a member of the group of young Krivoy Rog poets. Since may 1962 — the first publication of poems in Ukrainian Newspapers. In 1963, during Khrushchev's persecution of formalism, he was exposed in the Ukrainian press. In 1964 he entered the Department of history and art theory of the faculty of history of Moscow state University. Acquaintance and friendship with the main representatives of the domestic underground.

In January 1965, together with Leonid Gubanov, he founded the smog literary community and became its leader. February-March 1965 — smog performances in Moscow. Since 1965 — the publication of poems in the West. In the spring of 1965 Aleynikov was expelled from the University. In 1966 he was restored to Moscow state University, which he graduated in 1973.

Under Soviet power at home was not published, more than a quarter of a century poems were distributed in samizdat. In the years 1971-1978 bezdomnych, wandered about the country. He worked in archaeological expeditions, as a loader, as a janitor, at school, in a large-circulation newspaper, as an editor in a publishing house. In the early 1980s he wrote poems for children. For several years he wrote internal reviews in Moscow publishing houses. In the 1980s he was known as a translator of poetry of the peoples of the USSR.

The publication of poems and prose at home began in the period of perestroika. The first books of poetry were published in 1987. In the early 1990s, several large books of poetry were published. Now Aleynikov is the author of many books of poetry and prose - memories of a bygone era and his contemporaries. The poems have been translated into different languages.

Member of the editorial Board of magazines "Sagittarius", "Khreschatyk". Member of the Union of writers of Moscow, the Union of writers of the 21st century and the creative Council of the Union. Member of the PEN club. Since 1991 he lives in Moscow and Koktebel.