The poet Vladimir Ufland died

Yesterday it became known about the death of the Russian poet Vladimir Ufland. He was not widely known, but Joseph Brodsky called him among the three best Russian poets of our time. The death of the poet was reported in his blog by publisher Dmitry Volchek.

Seven years ago, on his personal website, Vladimir Ufland published a brief autobiography:

"Born in 1937 in Leningrad. He was evacuated in Nizhny Tagil, then finished secondary school in Leningrad, worked, served in the army in the vicinity of Pechenga. He studied for two years at the Eastfacing of the University of Leningrad, worked again in different places: a stoker, workers of the scene, workers of the Hermitage, etc. In the Hermitage in 1964 together with the year together with the year. Mishakin, Volodya Ovchinnikov, Oleg Lyagachev and Valera Kravchenko participated in the world forbidden exhibition of the Ermitta Workers. In addition, he wrote poetry for children, for a musical theater, cinema, TV and translated for duplicated films.

According to Lenta.ru, the first book of the poems of Ufland, the poet of the "Philological School" (by the definition of Konstantin Kuzminsky), was published in the United States in 1978 under the name "Texts 56-77". This direction, which is also called the circle of Mikhail Krasilnikov, also included Sergei Kull, Alexander Kondratov, Mikhail Yeremin, Leonid Vinogradov, Lev Losev.

In the early 1980s, the works of Ufland were also published in Parisian Russian-speaking publications-"Echo", "Continent", "Russian Thought". In St. Petersburg, the first book of the poet was published in 1993 - "Poetic texts." It was followed by “Selected Texts” (1995), “Rhymiated ordered texts” (1997) and a collection of essays “If God sends me readers” (2000), for which he received from the journal “Zvezda” the award of Sergei Dovlatov. Peter Vail and Alexander Genis in one of the essays called Vladimir Ufland "lyrical absurdist"; The poet had another flattering nickname - "The Last Oberit." In January 2007, the anniversary of Vladimir Ufland was celebrated in St. Petersburg-his seventieth anniversary.