In 2003, Ilya Kormiltsev founded publishing house Ultra.Kultura and managed it as the editor-in-chief since 2003 until his death in 2007.
Ultra.Kultura became notorious in 2004, when Russian authorities accused it with propaganda of drug use and terrorism.
[1][2] In 2006, shortly after Ultra.Kultura translated Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture and Apocalypse Culture II and published them together as a single volume, titled Культура времен Апокалипсиса, the volume was banned by Kremlin decree as drug propaganda, owing to its inclusion of David Woodard's essay "The Ketamine Necromance".
[3] Ultra.Kultura was known for publishing "controversial" authors and books related to far-left and far-right extremism.
[citation needed] Ultra.Kultura published essays of National Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov when he was imprisoned.