Nitochkin, Sergey Alexandrovich

Born in the family of refrigeration specialist Alexander Efimovich Nitochkin . He graduated from the History Department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after Lenin . As a journalist, he was published in the newspapers Sovetskaya Rossiya, Trud, Moskovsky Komsomolets, and worked on television. He was a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR . Since 1977, he worked as a merchandiser in a second-hand bookstore.

In 1988, he opened the first in the USSR private second-hand bookstore "Rarity". In 1990, he organized the Raritet-537 publishing house, in which a collection of 537 copies issued a number of books by prominent contemporary poets in the original design of famous artists - as Vyacheslav Kuritsyn noted, “the books of this series have two equal authors - a poet and an artist. <...> Five hundred thirty-seven - circulation. Rarity is a genre. The disk between "Rarity" and "537" is the shadow of flight " ^[1] . The following editions appeared in the series:

• Gennady Aigi , Igor Vulokh . Candles in the Darkness and Several Songs (1991)
• Henry Sapgir , Leo Kropyvnytsky . Pushkin, Bufarev and others (1992)
• Eugene Rein , Alexander Kharitonov . Tender ... (1992)
• Igor Kholin , Victor Pivovarov . Voinrid (1993)
• Alexander Eremenko , Alexander Smirnov . Horizontal Country (1994)
• Igor Irteniev , Andrey Bilzho . Empire of Good (1994)
• Joseph Brodsky . Wertumn (1994)

In 2010, he worked on the open text book by poet Igor Guberman and artist Boris Zhutovsky in the same way, and he released the book of memoirs by Grigory Dmitrievich Ageev “In view of the abolition of the death penalty”. In 2011, he published in the collection "Bibliophilism and Personal Collections" an essay "Colorful Tales of Gatherers and Book Sellers", described by Nikolai Bogomolov as "fascinating second-hand books” ^[2] .