Natalia Golovatyuk

Natalia Petrovna Golovatyuk (Наталья Петровна Головатюк; born 1978, Yukhnov) is a Russian journalist and poet. Art critic. According to “Literaturnaya Gazeta", “Golovatyuk’s poetry is filled with that inescapable feminine tenderness and lyricism of which the primordially Slavic soul is capable". He the most famous work is “If You Want to Understand a Рerson" (Если хочешь понять человека).

Biography
Born on May 25 in Yukhnov. Graduate of the Moscow State Institute of Culture (2002). Special correspondent for the Nika TV of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Author and presenter of the "Coach in the Museum" and "Cultural Environment" programs. Director of the "Atlants of Museum" documentary for the 100th anniversary of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts. Editor of Nika FM. Published in the “Literaturnaya Gazeta", the magazine “Children of Ra" (2005), the newspapers “Vest'" and “Znamya", the literary almanac from the publishing house “Poligraph-Inform" “Continuation" (2004), the magazine “Culture and Time" (2009), the almanac “Zharki Siberian" No. 18, December 2014. Performs at creative evenings. Natalia Golovatyuk is included in the encyclopedia “Literary Kaluga. Activities of Authors".

In 2022, Natalia Golovatyuk's poems, translated into English, were included in the “World Poetry Tree".

In October 2022, the film “The Cosmic Parthenon of Kaluga. Perspective 2022" (author Natalia Golovatyuk) was awarded the Silver Sign of the Zodchestvo Festival in the category “Best documentary film about architecture and architects".

In 2023, she hosted Russia's first radio program about space, “Kaluga and Space".

Since December 2023, she has been managing the art gallery of the Kaluga House of Music.

Her daughter Elizaveta was born in 2015.