Poet, prose writer, playwright, and artist. Born in 1945 in Leningrad. Graduated from a school for working youth and a photography college. In the 1960s, he was part of an unofficial circle of poets on Malaya Sadovaya Street; later, he participated in the art group the Helenukts, which gravitated toward an aesthetic of the absurd. As an artist, he worked in the genre of abstract graphics and published primarily in samizdat. In 1973, he emigrated to Prague. He died there in 2011. During his lifetime, only one book of poems by A. Nik (Nikolai Akselrod) was published: The Alarm Clock of Time (2008). A posthumous collection, The Split of Words (2012), appeared in Madrid. His works were included in the anthology Transfurists: Selected Texts (2016) and several other collections.