Inna Bulkina

Bulkina was born on 12 November 1963 in the city of Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.^[1][2]

In the 1980s, she attended the University of Tartu in the Estonian SSR.^[3] Her master's thesis was titled "Авторские сборники Е.А.Баратынского на фоне традиции русского поэтического сборника первой половины XIX века" (English: "Author's collections of EA Baratynsky against the background of the tradition of the Russian poetry collection of the first half of the XIX century"), which she defended in 1993.^[2] Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Киев в русской литературе первой трети XIX века" (English: "Kyiv in Russian literature during the first third of the XIX century"), and she graduated with a PhD from the University of Tartu.^[3][4]

Bulkina studied 19th-century Russian poetry and Soviet and post-Soviet culture in Russia and Ukraine.^[3] She later worked at the Pushkin Museum in Kyiv and was a researcher at the Institute of Cultural Policy at the Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies [uk].^[3][2]

She was a columnist for the Russian Journal, as well as a writer for various magazines and websites.^[2] She contributed to the print magazines and journals Banner [uk], New World [uk], and New Literary Review [ru] as well as the online magazines, Daily Magazine [ru], Гефтер (gefter.ru), and Russian Magazine [ru]. Her writing focused on literature and socio-political topics, including on Kyiv's place in Russian and Ukrainian culture, the Russian war against Ukraine, and modern Ukrainian literature.^[3][1][2]

Bulkina was the author of the project "Magazine Pulp",^[5] and compiled the anthologies Киев. Фотографии на память (English: Kyiv. Photographs in Memory) and Киев в русской поэзии (English: Kyiv in Russian Poetry) and the poetry collection Числа (English: Numbers).^[4]

Bulkina died unexpectedly in Kyiv on 20 January 2021.^[4]