Murmansk native Sergey Kulichenko is Ukrainian by passport, Russian by culture. He studied in Kaliningrad (Königsberg), worked in Anapa, was baptized in Novorossiysk, where he also wrote his first poems of the cycle "Shadows of Rain" in the style of Chinese poetry, therefore he considers the translator Lev Eidlin his teacher, "...with whom I did not have the happiness to communicate personally," as the author says. He lives in Minnesota.