- Born
- Birth nameNikolai Ivanovich Kurbatov
- Height6′ 3½″ (1.92 m)
- Nikolai Kurbatov is a Russian video editor, poet, encyclopedist, director, actor, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, composer, designer, painter, literary and film critic, geographer, economist, freestyle footballer, dart player, basketball player, polymath, the founder of trailer poetics and dialogue construction of trailers, the author of the idea of editing personal messages on Facebook and VK and reviews rating on Kinopoisk, holder of 14 barnstars of the English and Norwegian Wikipedia and Runiversalis Encyclopedia, the Acknowledgments of the Head of Perm and the Minister of Culture of the Perm Krai, Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Culture of the Perm Krai, medals "Fyodor Dostoevsky 200 years old", two "Sergei Yesenin 125 years old", "Marina Tsvetaeva 130 years old", "Enlighteners Cyril and Methodius", "Holy Rus'", 10 diplomas, 11 certificates, 2 medals of the Russian Book of Records, Russian Book of Records icon, 5 "Runiversalis" medals, European record holder and 15-time Russian record holder, disabled with bipolar disorder, creator of about 70,000 works, including over 60 thousand articles, about 5,000 poems, over 1,300 videos, over 300 verse reviews, over 130 photos, over 110 titles, 29 illustrations of poems, 24 film reviews, 15 musical compositions, 10 versions of logo, 6 wallpapers, 3 stories, 3 banners, 2 posters, singer of 9 songs. Nikolai is the son of a Russian engineer Oleg Orlovsky and Lyudmila Nikolaevna Kurbatova - lecturer, Candidate of Sociological Sciences. At 4-year-old age Nikolai became interested in cinema. As a child engaged in athletics, darts, football freestyle. Nikolai started to create fan-made video clips for movies at 14-year-old age (in 2004) by method of screenshots using PowerDVD, AviMaker and VirtualDub. In 2007 he entered the State National Research Polytechnical University of Perm on specialty "Enterprise Economy and Management" and studied in great. Since 2007 to 2009 Nikolai writes reviews for movies, stories, makes wallpapers, projections of the box office, and creates the music. In may of 2010, returns to the clips and fan-made trailers, but in the professional video editing software. In September of 2010 he begins to attend acting classes. In 2011 Nikolai fell ill with bipolar disorder and he was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. Also In 2011 his Modern Trailer for V for Vendetta (2005) (V for Vendetta Russian Fan-Made Trailer) has been highly appreciated in Moscow. Nikolai was the first who gave the film's plot in the trailer through dialogue in this work. Nikolai began to work in the Moscow producer center "Ars Nova". Together with producer Andrei Rusanov, Nikolai created the official trailers for Home (2011), Zavtra (2012), the official TV spots for Atomic Ivan (2012), a versions of the official trailers for Shu-Chu (2009), Bablo (2011), a versions of the official TV spots for August 8 (2012), trailer for X film festival "Luchezarnyy Angel" (for The Moscow City Government and the Ministry of Culture of Russia), versions of the official trailers for movies Detochki (2013), All at Once (2014), Winter Journey (2013), and Naughty Grandma (2017), showreel for Nadezhda Mikhalkova, official promo video for The House Elf (2019) and a few videos for trailer house "On/Off Pro". From June 2014 to January 2016, Nikolai reprinted poems of Alexei Motkin in internet, from April to August of 2015 he was the administrator of the group "Trailers" in VK. Since 2016 Nikolai creates and writes articles in English, Russian, Deutsch, Italian, French, Portuguese, Croatian, Netherlandish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Haitian Creole, Esperanto, Galician, Occitan, Simple English, Afrikaans, Luxembourgish, Basque, Cebuano, Acehnese, Yoruba, Waray, Lower Sorbian, Ido, Cornish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Corsican, Piedmontese, Extremaduran, Sardinian, Venetian, Scottish Gaelic, Quechuan, Walloon, Faroese, Novial, Franco-Provençal, Nahuatl, Sranan Tongo, Spanish and Bulgarian Wikipedia about Russian rural localities, films and athletes (nicknamed "Nikolai Kurbatov" and "Nikolai Ivanovich Kurbatov"). Nikolai has been repeatedly nominated on the awards "Poet of the year", "My Ruthenia" and "Philanthropist". Nikolai received many Wikipedia barnstars, public and state awards. Nikolai was included in the list "Best Guys" published on the "Teaser PRO" channel. Nikolai set 13 Russian records, including as author of the highest rated movie trailer, most liked video without dislikes, most viewed video without dislikes, and the largest number of edits and articles, created in English and Simple English Wikipedia. Nikolai took 9th place in the top of the most prolific editors of the English Wikipedia as of April 10, 2020. In 2023, he began writing articles for the Runiversalis Encyclopedia. In 2023, Nikolai entered the Europe book of records as the author of the largest number of Wikipedia publications made by a disabled person with a mental disorder. A significant part of his income from video and everything that he earned by entering captchas (Nikolai introduced over 240 thousand captchas), he donated to charity.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- In 1999 Nikolai received the first junior level darts, and in 2005 in the home qualifying standard Candidate Master of Sports.
- In the summer of 2007, Nikolai set a personal record in football freestyle - without interruption juggled soccer ball for 1 hour and 6 minutes (5061 times).
- Nikolai never drank alcohol and did not smoke.
- In 2008, Nikolai offered creator kinopoisk, Vitaliy Tatsiy, make the members rating reviews positive feedback ratio to the total amount. The idea was appreciated by Vitali and in 2009 has been implemented.
- He has made a number of significant changes and additions to various articles of Wikipedia, including "Trailer (film)", "Talent", "Genius", "Russia", "People's Republic of China", "Sponsor", "Nostalgia", "Film editing", "Kinopoisk", " Facebook", "YouTube", "Art", "Steven Spielberg" in different languages.
- Movie - just material like paint for the artist. (2016)
- Now, when I cant anymore watch the movie normally, I realize how much trailers better, than movies. (2015)
- My disease - the result of my work. The success of my work - the result of my disease. (2015)
- The trailer, which makes you want to watch a movie - the average trailer. Top skill - convince the viewer to review the video itself. (2015)
- I have two favorite things: videos and walking. Mentally ill will understand. (2016)
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