Ilya Kormiltsev | |
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| Native name | Илья Кормильцев |
| Born | 26 September 1959 Sverdlovsk, USSR |
| Died | 4 February 2007 (aged 47) London, UK |
| Occupation | poet, translator, and publisher |
| Language | Russian |
| Alma mater | Ural State University |
Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev (Russian: Илья́ Вале́рьевич Корми́льцев; 26 September 1959 – 4 February 2007) was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher. Kormiltsev is most famous for working during the 1980s and the 1990s as a songwriter in Nautilus Pompilius, one of the most popular rock bands in the Soviet Union and, later, Russia. He was also a prominent literary translator and publisher. Since 1997, he translated into Russian many important pieces of modern prose, such as Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, or Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. In 2003, he established Ultra.Kultura publishing house, which immediately gained a scandalous reputation and was closed by the authorities in 2007. Through its brief history, Ultra.Kultura published numerous counter-culture books in a wide range from ultra-right to radical left authors.