Yuri Rydkin

The author studied at school No.3, Gomel (1986–1996).

He graduated from the Belarusian department of the Linguistic Faculty of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University in 2004.

6 October 1998 Yuri Rydkin attempted to commit a suicide jumping from a railway bridge in Gomel, as a result he got injured and disabled.[3][4]

Rydkin explores the genre of conversation with bots in the most scrupulous way.[5][6][7] His works are screenshots of art-dialogues with virtual interlocutors, including Alice. In a literary critic Galina Rymbu's opinion, his «Bot Conversation» is written in the genre of found poetry.[8]

The poet has had a artistic dialogue with COVID-19 on Facebook. The screenshots of his fb-posts are published under the title of «COVID-POETRY» in a literary almanac.[9]

Rydkin is the founder of cyberzaum[5][10] and hyperlink poetry,[11][12][13][14][5][15] the concept of which was expressed in his manifestation.[16]

The author's stanza lyrics have a mark of futurology.[15]

Rydkin has made a few photo collages which attracted the attention of a photo artist Василий Ломакин and a art critic Теймур Даими.[17]

Rydkin is the author of literary critical articles on the prose of Margarita Meklina, Вадим Месяц, the poetry of Мария Степанова, Алла Горбунова, Ирина Котова, Лида Юсупова, Виктор Лисин and others.

The author has translated the works[18] by Daniil Kharms, Eduard Limonov and a chapter "Ultima Thule"[19] from the last unfinished Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov into Belarusian.

His works have been published in such paper and electronic editions as Novy Mir, Znamya, Волга, Цирк «Олимп», Топос, Сетевая словесность, Homo Legens, Полутона, Ф-письмо, Лиterraтура, Журнальный зал,[20] Post(non)fiction, on the website of the publishing house Новое литературное обозрение[21] and in other journals.

Yuri Rydkin has been widely quoted by his contemporaries[22][23][24][25][26] and his works have attacted much attention of literary critics.[1][15][5][11][12][6][27][28][29][30][31] According to their opinion, his works of art are close to the works by Fyodor Svarovsky,[15] Dmitri Prigov[5] and Lev Rubinstein.[5]