Oleg Chukhontsev

In 1962 he finished the philology department of the State University of the Moscow Region.

He worked for poetry section of journals Yunost and Novy Mir.

[1] After the publication of his poem "A story about Kurbsky" in the Yunost journal in 1968, he was heavily attacked in press, and for 8 years his original works were officially considered "unpublishable".

His first book not affected by censorship-implied editing was "By Wind and by Ashes", published in 1989.

[1] The name "Chukhontsev" comes from an old Russian word "chukhonets", which means "a Finn", or "a person of Finnish origin".