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Dmitry Nikolayevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Дми́трий Никола́евич Кузнецо́в; born February 10, 1993), better known by his stage name Husky (Russian: Хаски), is a Russian rapper from Ulan-Ude. His music is known for its use of somber and evocative lyricism, complex rhyming schemes, and musical techniques like assonance and alliteration. His provocative songs are known for being poetically contradictory to his gopnik image, his aptitude for coalescing philosophical existentialism, biblical condemnations, and sophisticated references to Russian and European literature seemingly antithetical with his more obscene, anti-humanist characteristics.

Dmitry Nikolayevich Kuznetsov was born on February 10, 1993, in Irkutsk, Siberia. He moved to Buryatia when he was three months old. At the age of three, he was taught to read using Russian classical literature and at four years old, he was formally baptized, although his mother frequented both Christian churches and Buddhist datsan.

When he started going to school, he moved to Ulan-Ude to live with his mother after living with his aunt in the countryside. He was raised in the Vostochny microdistrict of Ulan-Ude, to which he later devoted the song "Поэма о Родине" (Poema o Rodine/Poem about Motherland). In 2021, he released the song " За Байкалом" (Za Baikalom/Behind the Baikal) dedicated to his life and family in Buryatia. He began writing and performing rap music at the age of 15.

In 2010, when he was 16 years-old, Dmitry Kuznetsov moved from Ulan-Ude to Moscow, passed the Russian language Unified State Exam and began attending Moscow State University's Faculty of Journalism. He lived in Moscow State University's The Residence Hall for Postgraduate Students and Trainee (DAS), where he lived for the next five years.

In 2010, his first year of study at Moscow State University, Kuznetsov worked as a journalist at NTV, VGTRK, and Russia-1, the main, state-funded news channel in Russia. At Russian-1, he worked as a censor for televised, on-screen content: "My duties included watching Ukrainian and European channels and looking for bloopers in their reports, so that later they could be broadcast on the air." This made him desire to make up his own mind and become a journalist, even a war correspondent, and travelled to places like Novorossiya and Donetsk.

It was in 2011, however, when he started becoming politically involved. He started going to opposition protests (2011-2013), a three-year period of concurrent demonstrations and counter-demonstrations across Russia gestated by the government participation in election fraud and rampant abuse of power to control and silence political oppositional leaders. He has stated that protesting among the youth at the time was in vogue and many were there because it was thing to do. But he states that he was there in earnest and his participation in these protests started to show him the societal divides in Russia from a first-person perspective. In 2013, his solo career would begin with his debut album "Sbch life" which referenced the sociopolitical dynamics of the Snow Revolution, Putin, and his views on political oppositionist Alexei Navalny.

In an Interview with The Village in 2016, he stated that he did not finish his degree at Moscow State University and left early without completing the requirements to graduate because of the changing tides of Russian society and his feeling that it was no longer necessary. Because the internal political situation was becoming so highly anxious, he felt he no longer needed or wanted to complete the program.

Once leaving University in 2015, he began pursuing rap as a career. In 2016, he stated that he was making very little on rap and living modestly off his earnings. He took odd music jobs, for instance working at the ticket control station for a Big Russian Boss concert, the concert in question occurring in November of that year.

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