Career
Vladimir Uflyand was born in Leningrad (now known as Street St. Petersburg). He studied history at Leningrad State University, and later worked as a labourer and as a stoker. His poems circulated in Samizdat, and he also published his poems for children in Soviet periodicals.
His poetry for adults was first published in a book form in the United States of America in 1978, titled Texts 56-77.
In 1993, his collection, Stikhotvornye texty(Poems and Texts), was published in Saint St. Petersburg. Two more poetry books followed in 1995 and in 1997.
In 2000, a book of his essays appeared in Saint St. Petersburg.