Vadim Bayan

Vadim Bayan (born Vladimir Ivanovich Sidorov; 5 January 1880 – 29 March 1966) was a Russian futurist poet, writer and playwright.

Biography Vladimir Ivanovich Sidorov was born in 1880 to the family of an agronomist in the village of Novovasilevka, Berdyansky Uyezd, Taurida Governorate, in the Russian Empire. He graduated from real school in Melitopol and worked as an office clerk. In 1906, he moved to Simferopol, where he worked as a proofreader in a printing house.

He was known primarily for his 'cosmopoems' Universe on the Plakh (, 1919–1920) and On the Pavement of Millennia (, (1922), as well as his memoirs Mayakovsky in the First Olympiad of Russian Futurists .

He made his debut in the Simferopol newspaper Tavrichanin in 1908 with the poem "Two Horses". In the same year in Melitopol was published his book Compressed Tape. A novel (in verse) 1905-1908 (. In 1910 in Petersburg he listened to lectures on philosophy and natural sciences at the Lesgaft Higher Courses. Then he printed at his own expense the book Lyrical Stream. Lyrionettes and Barcarolles (1914). which included his cosmopoem The Universe on the Plakh, a note by his sister, the poetess and critic Maria Kalmykova, and a portrait of Bayan by Vladimir Mayakovsky. He sent his anthologies From the Battery of the Heart, ‘A Chopped Kiss from the Lips of the Universe’ to Mayakovsky with the inscriptions: "To Mayakovsky, the Great".

He was featured as a character in the novel by V. V. Bondarenko The Captain's Grandson (2018), set in 1919 in Alexandrovsk.