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Valentin Kuklev

Russian semanticist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7910780
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Valentin Kuklev - (born 11 April 1948, Moscow, Russia) - researcher of semantics, author of books, articles and television broadcasts on symbolism. Soviet and Russian underground activist, philosopher and thinker. Follower of V. Nalimov. Board member of the futurological group futura.ru. Participant of the project "Ways of energy development in Europe", together with DaimlerChrysler; projects "Networked Economy", "Terrorism in the 21st Century" (for the Federation Council of Russia). From 1989 to 1994, lived in Los Angeles, California, US. Currently lives in Moscow, Russia.

Biography

In 1972, he began working on the system design in CRI DIAS (Design Institute of Automated Systems) at Gosstroy USSR. At that time - one of the founders of the Electronic Music Studio at the Scriabin Museum. The studio work was carried out to establish a multimedia environment and audio-visual synthesis. At the same time with the participation of V. Kuklev an underground group named "Context" is formed. It includes philosophers, philologists, psychologists.

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