Ilya Sergeyevich Kolunov (Russian: Илья Сергеевич Колунов, born October 6, 1997, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia), better known by his stage name KOLUNOV, is a Russian singer, musician, songwriter and businessman. He is Deputy General Director for Commercial Affairs and Public Relations of the Sadovoye Koltso development company. 
 He is also the founder of the SK Razvitie Foundation for targeted assistance and the director of the 7 Notes of the Moscow Oblast festival of children's and youth creativity. He is also involved in community and charitable projects, and initiates many of them on his own.
 Ilya was born on October 6, 1997 in Kazan, where he went to school in the 1st grade. His father is Sergey Kolunov, a member of the State Duma of the 8th convocation, formerly a successful entrepreneur and founder of the Sadovoye Koltso development company. Mother Elena Kolunova, an economist by training, co-founder of the SK Razvitie targeted assistance fund.
 Ilya Kolunov's parents supported him in every way possible in all his endeavors, both in creativity and in business. From childhood, they taught him good music and fostered in Ilya social responsibility to society. At the age of 9 he was given to the theater studio "Neposedy". Ilya finished the first grade at school in Kazan in school № 39, then the family moved to Moscow because of the work of Ilya's father, in Moscow Ilya entered school № 1243 and studied there until the 9th grade. Parallel to studying at school Ilya was one of the leading soloists of the theater-studio "Neposedy", is its alumnus.
 After 9th grade, Ilya's parents decided to move to the UK for his education. Ilya entered a boarding school in the north of England, Queen Ethelburga's college, located near the city of York. Ilya then enrolled at UCL University of London, majoring in Construction Project Management. He holds a bachelor's degree. During his studies, Ilya's musical career was put on pause, but periodically he continued to do vocals and write his own songs. In his final year of study, Ilya finally decided that he wanted to connect his life not only with business, but also with music.
 Ilya Kolunov, in addition to his creative activities, took over the family business from his father, becoming one of the main co-founders of the Garden Ring Group of Companies, which builds residential complexes in major cities of the Russian Federation. Now Ilya has to combine business and music at the same time.
 At the beginning of his Ilya met with sound producer Alexander Kuznetsov, who once helped Russian rapper Oxxxymiron, to work on the music album "City under the sole". In 2019, Ilya released his debut album "Total Madness", the presentation of which took place in the club "16 tons" with the participation of singer Yolka, Vlad Topalov, as well as rapper Loc-Dog. Kolunov has always emphasized rapper Loc-Dog in his creative career, calling him his creative mentor.
 In 2019, Loc-Dog and Kolunov's joint track "So Much" premiered. In the same year, Kolunov published a cover version of singer Yelka's track "I miss you". In 2020 Ilya released the first ever Screenlife music video "Take the phone", also in 2021 Ilya became a participant of the large-scale TV festival "New Song of the Year" on Muz TV.
 In 2022, Ilya recorded a joint remake of the song "Beauty" with the band Factor-2. In the same year, Ilya took part in the VK FEST music festival in Moscow and St. Petersburg and became the host of the large-scale TV festival "New Song of the Year 2022" on Muz TV. In 2023, in honor of Father's Day, Ilya presented a new track "Papa". Other artists also took part in the filming of the project, providing exclusive shots with their fathers. Among the participants are MIA BOYKA, Loc-Dog, Anna Khilkevich, Natasha Hasankhanova, Yulianna Karaulova, Asiya, Philip Gazmanov, Tima Akimov, Vlad and Alina Topalov, Katya Adushkina and others.
 In 2022, Ilya resumed the activities of the festival of children's and youth creativity "7 Notes of the Moscow Oblast", in which he took an integral part, being the director of this festival. This festival is one of the few non-commercial creative festivals aimed at finding and supporting young talents. The gala concert of the festival was held in Vegas City Hall on May 31, 2022. At the press conference of the festival Ilya Kolunov stated that the next stage will be to bring the festival to the federal level.
 He is a volunteer assistant to Sergey Vladimirovich Kolunov, deputy of the State Duma (VIII convocation).