Nikolai Kurbatov
- Director
- Editor
- Producer
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.