User:Tintin-tintine/Ilya Prusikin

Tintin-tintine/Ilya Prusikin

Ilya Prusikin (Russian: Илья́ Влади́мирович Пруси́кин, born April 8 1985, Ust'-Borzya[1], Ononsky District, Chita Oblast, RSFSR, USSR), Russian musician, singer, record producer, vlogger, director and screenwriter of video clips, psychologist and teacher. Front person and founder of punk-pop-rave group Little Big from Saint Petersburg. He's also known under stage name Ilyich (Russian: «Ильич»), an in-joke referencing Vladimir Lenin's patronymic.


Life and career

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Ilya Prusikin was born in a village Ust'-Borzya, Chita Oblast (now a part of Zabaykalsky Krai). With his parents, he moved to Sosnovy Bor, the subverbs of Saint Petersburg[1].


He studied at children music school, piano class.

Prusikin graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts.

In 2011, he started collaboration with a subsidiary project of the Russian fun-production studio “My Ducks Vision” by Yuri Degtyarev named “Thank you, Eva!”. It was uniting video bloggers into one large affiliate network. The “Guffy Gough Show” (2012) and “The Great Rap Battle” (2012), stylized as a children's show, in which, through recitative, the powers that be, came into confrontation with each other. Both of his programs were the network's highest rated videos and "were exposing the social plagues of society and ridiculed the well-known vices of humanity".

In 2012, Prusikin became a producer and an actor of the Internet sitcom "Police Weekdays" (Russian: «Полицейские будни»). After the third episode, the project was closed.

In 2013, Prusikin and Eldar Dzharakhov founded the artistic partnership “ClickKlak”. According to the them, the audience of ClickKlack consists of "boys and girls with an active lifestyle and a good sense of humor". The channel’s page contains such shows as “Give the Bream” (Russian: «Дай леща»), “Thrash Lotto” (Russian: «Трэш лото»), “As You Say” (Russian: «Как скажешь»), “Shocking Karaoke” (Russian: «Шокирующее караоке»), “Experiments' Destroyers” (Russian: «Разрушители экспериментов»), “Kick the Bucket” (Russian: «Сыграл в ящик»), and many others..

Musical career

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In 2003, Ilyich (stage name of Ilya Prusikin) became a member of the little-known nu-metal band Tenkorr. Prusikin also gained an experience working with the other groups, Like A Virgin, St. Bastards and Construktorr among them.

He has achieved a serious level of domestic and international recognition with the band Little Big, founded on April 1, 2013. All music videos of the band are shot by its co-founder, Alina Pyazok (Russian: Алина Пязок).

 
Илья Прусикин с группой «Little Big» на «VK Fest 2018» в Санкт-Петербурге. 29 июля 2018 года.



Personal life

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On July 6, 2016 Ilya married Irina Smelaya[2][unreliable source?].

Their son Dobrynya was born on 26 Noverber 2017[3].

References

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  1. ^ a b "ВИДЕО (ВНИМАНИЕ! Содержит ненормативную лексику! Ограничение просмотра по возрасту — «18+»). «Вписка» и «Ильич» («Little Big») — о знакомстве с Ирой Смелой, работе с «Lizer», почему Киркоров панк (на 18:22 говорит о месте рождения)". // youtube.com (пользователь — «ВПИСКА»). 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  2. ^ "Когда состоялась свадьба Ирины Смелой и Ильи Прусикина, фотография?" (in Russian). Интернет-сервис «Большой вопрос» // bolshoyvopros.ru. 2017 год. Retrieved 2018-09-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Кто родился у Иры Смелой и Ильича (солиста Little Big)?" (in Russian). // nasmillion.ru. 25 декабря 2017 года. Retrieved 2018-09-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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