Real name: Валерий Михайлович Шерстяной

Effective period / Period of releases: 1990

Valeri Scherstjanoi (September 3, 1950 in Sagiz, Kazakhstan) is a Russian sound-poet, writer, and graphic artist since 1968.

Scherstjanoi 1950, grew up in Krasnodar in the south of the present-day Russian Federation. He is the author of a number of poetry-books and has been writing theoretical texts (his own poetic theory and the practice of Ars Scribendi) as well as articles and books on the history of Russian Futurism in magazines, collections, and anthologies. He lives and works in Berlin.