Education
Born in Krasnoyarsk, he studied journalism at Siberian Federal University but did not graduate.
Born in Krasnoyarsk, he studied journalism at Siberian Federal University but did not graduate.
He worked at the urban newspaper Vlast" Trudu (Russian: Власть труду. Power to Labor) and has published poems since 1993. He serves at Spassky Cathedral in Minusinsk.
In 2002 a selection of his poems, previously anthologized in the 2001 collection Provincial Literature, were shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize.
(Russian) Galina Ermoshina, Power to the Dark, a review at Russian Journal, 13 November 2002. (Russian) Dmitry Kuzmin, Underground Fire, a review of Deposition of the Serpent in the New Literary Review, 2003.
(Russian) Elena Fanailova, Deposition of the Serpent, a review in The Critical Mass, issue 2, 2004. (Russian) Boris Dubin, By Cellulose and Saliva, an analysis of Kruglov"s style in the New Literary Review, 2007.