This is what the local Board of Education website says about him: “Victor Kryuchkov has been directing a literary studio at the Secondary School # 41 since 2007. He is a teacher of the highest category, a member of the Russian Writers Association, the author of several books of poems. Victor Vasilyevich is a winner of international poetry competitions and has been awarded many prizes for his literary work. His students have won ten regional literary competitions and have received thirteen diplomas. Kruchkov’s students have been publishing a school paper called “Oasis.” In 2010 the paper won a special “Young Erudite” prize.”