caption death_date death_place birth_place native_name birth_date language image article_title name occupation alma_mater
ilya kormiltsev in 2006 04 february 2007 london , uk sverdlovsk , ussr Илья Кормильцев 26 september 1959 russian kormilz.jpg ilya kormiltsev
 ilya kormiltsev poet , translator , and publisher ural state university
ilya kormiltsev

ilya valeryevich kormiltsev -lrb- , b. september 26 , 1959 , sverdlovsk , ussr -lrb- now yekaterinburg , russia -rrb- - d. february 4 , 2007 , london , uk -rrb- was a russian poet , translator , and publisher .
kormiltsev is most famous for working as songwriter and producer in nautilus pompilius , one of most popular rock bands in the soviet union and , later , russia .
kormiltsev worked with nautilus pompilius during the 1980s and the 1990s .
he understood the english and french languages to a near-native level and translated books in these languages into his native russian .
later , kormiltsev founded ultra.kultura publishing house and managed it as the editor-in-chief since 2003 until his death in 2007 .
the publishing house became notorious in 2004 , when russian authorities accused it with propaganda of drug use and terrorism .
on a visit to london in january 2007 , kormiltsev fell down and injured his spine .
on january 22 , 2007 he was diagnosed with incurable spinal cancer and died on february 4 , 2007 , aged 47 .
the funeral service was held at troyekurovskoye cemetery in moscow .
alexander korotich designed the monument to a russian poet ilya kormiltsev that was placed in moscow in 2009 .
geydar dzhemal , chairman of the islamic committee of russia , announced that kormiltsev embraced islam before his death .
although initially kormiltsev 's friends and relatives denied this had taken place , after the funeral , they announced that kormiltsev had been buried in a savan , facing mecca .
a commemorative bench for kormiltsev was installed at lincoln 's inn fields in london .
a literary award was named after him .
