Kirill Kobrin writes fiction and nonfiction prose, co-edits Moscow magazine of sociology, history and politics Neprikosnovenniy Zapas ("Emergency Rations"), and researches the cultural history of Russia and the Czech Republic. Kobrin is the author of 15 books in Russian, one of them is a tribute to Flann O'Brian, Tekstoobrabotka ("Bookhandling"). Some critics hailed him as the "Russian Borges" and "one of the founders of Russian psychogeography." His texts have been translated into several European languages. Kobrin lives in London.