Ilya Prusikin, known in the blogging party as Ilyich, was born on April 8, 1985 in Transbaikalia, on the border of the Russian Federation and China. Ilya managed to establish himself not only as a video blogger and musician, but he is also an actor, director, and also screenwriter of many Internet projects.
How it all began
Ilya grew up an active boy and loved sports: he played baseball and played in a football team. In addition, on parental initiative as a child, he attended a music school and studied piano. Prusikin also received a higher education at the Department of Psychology of the Psychological and Pedagogical Faculty at St. Petersburg State University of Economics.
When Ilya was a teenager, he moved with his parents to St. Petersburg, where he subsequently stayed and began working on various Internet projects, including the notorious "Guffy Gough Show", the series "Police Weekdays", as well as the "Great Rap Battle" and a lot others.
Internet career
In 2012, in the framework of cooperation with the platform "Thank you, Eve!" Ilya Prusikin worked on the Great Rap-Battle and the Guffy Gough Show projects, which soon became very popular and gained the most views on the platform’s website. The projects were humorous, but the serious problems of society and the vices of mankind were hidden under jokes.
After a while, Ilya Prusikin acted as a producer and actor of an Internet series called “Police Weekdays”, in which the most famous Russian video bloggers took part: Ilya Maddison, Sam Nickel, guys from the “Like” show, founder of popular Internet projects Yuri Degtyarev and many others. However, despite such a bright cast, the sitcom was not able to attract a sufficient number of audiences, and the project was soon closed.
After some period of time, Ilya entered into a collaboration with the blogger Eldar Dzharakhov, which resulted in the creation of the Klikklak project, on the YouTube channel of which more than 3.3 million people are now subscribed.
Samples in music
Ilya turned out to be a very musical personality and repeatedly performed in the framework of some musical groups. In 2013, he became the ideological inspirer of the new Little Big group, the first clip of which caused a great deal of resonance in Russian video blogging. Someone took the creativity of young people sharply negatively, while someone laughed and appreciated the subtext and the desire of the guys to convey something to society.
Ilya is the founder and frontman of a musical project called Little Big, which was created in 2013. In the lyrics Prusikin is not afraid to raise sensitive issues and social problems, which we have not yet decided to talk about. The music videos of the group are very provocative and contain 18+ content.
The team has gained immense popularity not only in Russia but also abroad, especially in Europe. It all started from the moment the guys were invited to perform at the opening act of the band Die Antwoord. Now the group goes on tours not only throughout Russia, but also abroad.
Personal life
In July 2016, Ilya Prusikin married Ira Smela, also known as a blogger and music artist. And on July 20 of this year, it became known that Irina was pregnant, as the couple reported in one of the videos on the girl’s channel. After that, the photos of Ilya Prusikin and his wife Irina, who reported such good news, scattered across all the famous public pages of VKontakte dedicated to YouTube.
Ilya is active in his social media profiles, and you can easily follow the life of a blogger simply by subscribing to his Instagram and Vkontakte page. The biography of Ilya Prusikin is full of interesting points: both ups and downs. But even the difficulties in the process of creative search did not stop Ilya himself, which led him, in the end, to achieve great success in his career. This person is a very bright and artistic person, which can be seen by looking at the photo of Ilya Prusikin.