He is the author of several non-commercial Internet projects, including “Old Radio”, “Audiopedia [ru]”, and “Witness”.

His father, Ivan Ivanovich Metelkin (1922–1992) was a driver, and participated in the Great Patriotic War.

Metelkin is advocates shortening the term of copyright and the speedy transfer of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the USSR to the public domain.

[2] In April 2013, Metelkin donated 30 thousand reels of magnetic film with stock recordings of the USSR to the State Television and Radio Fund.

[3] He married Tatyana, the sister of his Sinyaya Ptitsa colleague Vladimir Shurygin [ru].