Alexey Konakov

Alexey Konakov (b. 1985) is an independent researcher of late Soviet culture and literature, winner of the Andrei Bely Prize (2016), author of the book The Second Outside: Essays on the Unofficial Literature of the USSR (TransLit, 2017) and papers published in the literary-critical almanac Translit, the journals New Literary Observer, Novy Mir, Znamya, Vestnik Evropy, and the online journals Colta.ru, Gorky.media, Knife.media, and others.