Background
Alexander Kabakov was born in Novosibirsk during the evacuation period in the family of Abram Yakovlevich Kabakov and Frida Isaakovna Kabakova.
Alexander Kabakov was born in Novosibirsk during the evacuation period in the family of Abram Yakovlevich Kabakov and Frida Isaakovna Kabakova.
A. Kabakov graduated from Mechanics and Mathematics faculty of Dnepropetrovsk University. He entered Mechanics and Mathematics faculty at Dnepropetrovsk University, but on his own characteristics he was "absolutely humanitarian person". After graduation from the university he worked as an engineer at jet development laboratory.
Since 1972, he began to work as a journalist in the newspaper «Gudok».
Since 1988, he worked in the newspaper «Moskovskye Novosti» as a columnist, then as editor-in-chief and as executive secretary. Story-dystopia «The defector» brought him popularity.
Since September 15, 1999, he went to work at the publishing house «Kommersant» as a special correspondent and the head of the department.
In the same period, worked as a columnist for the «Metropolitan Evening Newspaper» and editor-in-chief of the journal «Novy Ochevidets».
Currently he is the editor-in-chief of the magazine «Sakvoyazh SV», Kabakov publishes his works in periodicals as a publicist and columnist.
is a chairman of the jury of the «Russian Booker-2006».
On the basis of ’s work, films «Ten years without the right of correspondence» (directed by V. Naumov, 1990) and «The defector» (directed by S. Snezhkin, 1991) were made.
Kabakov's books have been published in many countries of the world, including the USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, all Scandinavian countries, Japan and China.
In 2011, co-authored with Evgenij Popov published a book of memoirs «Aksyonov». The authors are extremely concerned about the question of "writer's fate", referring to the intricacies of biography and the birth of a great personality. The supreme objective of the book is to resist the distortion of facts which suit a given conjuncture.
In 2014 Alexander Abramovich took part in the theatrical online readings «Karenina. Live edition ».