Victor Ivaniv

Victor Ivaniv (real name — Ви́ктор Ге́рманович Ивано́в; 11 April 1977, Novosibirsk — 25 February 2015, same location) was a Russian poet and writer with a doctor of philosophy in philology.

Ivaniv was born on 11 April 1977 in Novosibirsk, Russia.

He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University, and gained the title of Candidate of Philological Sciences.

His dissertation topic was the poetry of the Russian Avant-Garde (“The Philosophical Concept and the Iconic Sign in the Poetry of the Russian Avant-Garde”).

He worked as a librarian in the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

His works were published in the journals and almanacs Uralskaya Nov (Ural News), Sibirskie ogni (Siberian Lights), Vozdukh (Air), Chernovik (Scrapbook), Vavilon (Babylon), TextOnly, Тranslit, Russkaya proza (Russian Prose), ©oyuz Pisateley (Writers Union), Stetoskop (Stethoscope), Deti Ra (Children of Ra) and others, in the literary collections Vremya Ch (The Time of Ch), Chernym po Belomu (Black on White), in the anthology Nestolichnaya literatura (Non-Capital Literature).

He lived in Novosibirsk.

He committed suicide on 25 February 2015 by jumping out of the window of his own flat.

Describing her impression of the winners of the Debyut (Debut) Prize, the critic Lyudmila Vyazmitinova wrote about Ivaniv’s work: "“Ivaniv's texts seem to reproduce the multidirectional movements of the many nested images, simultaneously born in a saturated point in space, to which the author's gaze is directed. <...> But in all the texts, there is a desire for what Ivaniv himself has called 'rise me above the panorama'  this sets a certain vertical movement, giving hope for a new horizon for a gaze that breaks through into a new order of magnitude of vision, of sensation, of the ability to convey all this - is a new order of magnitude for the organisation of words.”"

In 2015, the online journal Kulturnaya Initziativa [kulturinfo.ru] published a short collection of poems dedicated to the passing of Victor Ivaniv.

In April 2017 in Novosibirsk, to coincide with the 40-year anniversary of the birth of Victor Ivaniv, the first Ivanivskie chteniya (“The Readings of Ivaniv”) took place.

The events took place at the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where Ivaniv had been working in his later years.

The readings were divided into two streams: the scientific one and the artistic one.

The following writers and literary scholars were the participants of “The Readings of Ivaniv” (both in person and online): Ainsley E. Morse (Boston, USA), Heinrich Jackson (Berlin, Germany), Sergei Biryukov (Halle, Germany), Anna Glazova (Hamburg, Germany), Aleksei Dyachkov (Moscow, Russia), Sergei Sokolovskiy (Moscow, Russia), Danila Davydov (Moscow, Russia), Vasily Borodin (Moscow, Russia), Lev Oborin (Moscow, Russia), Nikita Sugnatov (Moscow, Russia), Nikolay Kononov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Аlexei Porvin (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Stanislav Snytko (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Andrei Rodionov (Moscow, Russia), Aleksei A. Shepelev (Anapa, Russia), Aleksandr Zhitenev (Voronezh, Russia), Nataliya Sannikova (Chelyabinsk, Russia), Vladimir Bogomyakov (Tiumen, Russia), Yekaterina Boyarskikh (Irkutsk, Russia), Andrei Shevtsov (Tiumen, Russia), the Novosibirsk poets and literaries Ivan Poltoratskiy, Viktor Raspopin, Igor Silantyev, Andrei Zhdanov, Andrei Schetnikov, Svyatoslav Odarenko, Sergei Shuba, Dmitri Severov, Dmitri Gusev and others.

As part of the readings, the second volume of Victor Ivanivs selected prose Konetz Pokemarya (The End of the Pokemar) (Korovaknigi publishing house) was presented, as well as an exhibition of photographs by the artist Zosya Leutina.

In 2018 in Novosibirsk, a collection of works was published and curated by Sergei Vasilyev, titled The City of Ivaniv (Город Іванів).

The collective works by various authors include poems dedicated to the memory of Ivaniv.

The authors include Sergei Biryukov, Danila Davydov, Gali-Dana Singer, Oleg Yuriev, Aleksei A. Shepelyov, Mikhail Nemtzev, Andrei Rodionov, Aleksei Porvin and others.

In 2020, Aleksandr Zhitenev published an essay, Poetologiya Viktora Ivaniva [The Poetology of Victor Ivaniv], in the Litera Magazine.